I have found out that reading the original papers of Einstein elucidates a lot more than the whole of literature that's been wasted on the subject to introduce people to the ideas. Start with "Relativity : The Special and the General Theory" which is an introduction for everybody who followed math in highschool a little decently. Then read "The principle of relativity" published by Dover. You can buy both for $14.36 on amazon. I found those very understandable and I'm certainly no math wizard.
Einstein was a marvellous educator and his writing on the subject is way better than almost anybody else (except for Feynmann maybe).
Why are there still foot circuling in the scientific community. Has the crash of the Mars Climate Orbiter learned us nothing?
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One should be absolutely crazy to try medication first when you don't rule out an inappropriate life style or other obvious things as pointed out above. Mod this post down as soon as possible!
Basically, i'm not feeling very sorry for most of the garbage groups that are going down the garbage can right now. Screw em. On the other hand, probably some real gems, which we'll never know about anyway because they don't get any publicity, are going down the garbage can also. That i'm feeling sorry about. But let's say they're just collateral damage. I haven't been hearing any real good music since years, probably because most music has to be immediately consumable or they won't even try to promote it. Basically they are getting what they asked for: no long time vision, no money either in the long term.
My there friend, if the New Scientist runs a story about it and can't decide, as some respected scientist actually do at this moment of time, that it is all a fake I can't really think that there isn't something going on that we do not understand. Something is going on. Whether it is something spectacular or not is to be seen but things like contradictory evidence pops up everywhere, even amongst "respected" scientists. It's difficult to refute it saying that results are contradictory. Time will tell. Anyway, if scientists still are going for it ten years after the facts, risking their careers, I can't think nothing is going on. Think twice, quite a lot of what are accepted facts nowadays where called totally outrageous and ungrounded at the time they were published. History teaches us not to dismiss something at first sight, even if it seems totally outrageous.
Does this mean that slashdot has run out of interesting stories so we have to read this kind of stuff? This kind of thing has been known to exist for ages and the idea of a gigantuesque reactor at the core of the earth has been floating around for decennia.
I'm not saying, although it might look like that, that in the end the "truth" comes out. It's just not the case that this happens at once, as the previous post seems to point out. Science is not an easy world to win in, you might win in the end, but sometimes at a serious personal cost.
Hum, sounds a lot like pro open source fanfare. I like that, but you're really uninformed if you think that when one scientist finds a lot of good evidence that something accepted is wrong, that all of a sudden all the other scientists will follow suit. That certainly is NOT the case. It has happened an afwul many times in scientific history that somebody comes up with very decent research and is plainly ignored by his colleagues for the good reason that they don't want to accept it.
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I have found out that reading the original papers of Einstein elucidates a lot more than the whole of literature that's been wasted on the subject to introduce people to the ideas. Start with "Relativity : The Special and the General Theory" which is an introduction for everybody who followed math in highschool a little decently. Then read "The principle of relativity" published by Dover. You can buy both for $14.36 on amazon. I found those very understandable and I'm certainly no math wizard.
Einstein was a marvellous educator and his writing on the subject is way better than almost anybody else (except for Feynmann maybe).
Why are there still foot circuling in the scientific community. Has the crash of the Mars Climate Orbiter learned us nothing?
One should be absolutely crazy to try medication first when you don't rule out an inappropriate life style or other obvious things as pointed out above. Mod this post down as soon as possible!
Yoga! Do some yoga each day, you won't have trouble anymore.
Sorry, I meant: yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAWN.
Basically, i'm not feeling very sorry for most of the garbage groups that are going down the garbage can right now. Screw em. On the other hand, probably some real gems, which we'll never know about anyway because they don't get any publicity, are going down the garbage can also. That i'm feeling sorry about. But let's say they're just collateral damage. I haven't been hearing any real good music since years, probably because most music has to be immediately consumable or they won't even try to promote it. Basically they are getting what they asked for: no long time vision, no money either in the long term.
is in fact answered by the person asking the question: it depends. Sometimes you better phone, sometimes you better mail.
A very long one!
Nobody actually getting bored by this?
My there friend, if the New Scientist runs a story about it and can't decide, as some respected scientist actually do at this moment of time, that it is all a fake I can't really think that there isn't something going on that we do not understand. Something is going on. Whether it is something spectacular or not is to be seen but things like contradictory evidence pops up everywhere, even amongst "respected" scientists. It's difficult to refute it saying that results are contradictory. Time will tell.
Anyway, if scientists still are going for it ten years after the facts, risking their careers, I can't think nothing is going on. Think twice, quite a lot of what are accepted facts nowadays where called totally outrageous and ungrounded at the time they were published. History teaches us not to dismiss something at first sight, even if it seems totally outrageous.
This does not belong here.
RA
Does this mean that slashdot has run out of interesting stories so we have to read this kind of stuff? This kind of thing has been known to exist for ages and the idea of a gigantuesque reactor at the core of the earth has been floating around for decennia.
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Go to mailing list or newsgroups. This is not the right place. Who allows these questions anyway?
RA
The first idea that popped to my mind which seems relatively easy is to watch dvds with the subtitling on.
RA
Anybody ever tried Sylpheed? Fast, clean and supports all above mentioned protocols.
Keeps on staying 69%. This looks like being manipulated.
I'm not saying, although it might look like that, that in the end the "truth" comes out. It's just not the case that this happens at once, as the previous post seems to point out. Science is not an easy world to win in, you might win in the end, but sometimes at a serious personal cost.
Hum, sounds a lot like pro open source fanfare. I like that, but you're really uninformed if you think that when one scientist finds a lot of good evidence that something accepted is wrong, that all of a sudden all the other scientists will follow suit. That certainly is NOT the case. It has happened an afwul many times in scientific history that somebody comes up with very decent research and is plainly ignored by his colleagues for the good reason that they don't want to accept it. Reinaert
Why do we all want M$ to die? We can embrace it just the same as they have embraced so many things.
Fight fire with fire.