MagicMedicine there's just a hint of open-mindedness in your last words and that means it's a good time for me to say I apologize for the diatribe...
MM letting those in power do what they want is a problem no doubt about it no disagreement there. Hitler never broke a law. This is exactly...
Specious assertions Eugene. But there are far more people now than when Columbus landed. In fact our numbers are doubling every 50 years or...
I haven't read this whole thread but I want to point out with all due respect MagicMedicine that DOCUMENTS seem to be WORTHLESS except as tools of...
I want to share my gut emotional reaction to this thread and then there's something else I want to get into briefly. First my emotional...
I want to get involved here but I am extremely short on time. Crimson -- ChanginTimes already gave you a definition of agnostic but I would like...
There's a problem I think. We were talking about "having the whole solar system spin" -- as an entire unit in addition to the rotation of the...
Again I'm not sure you're talking about here.[But look what I say toward the end.] Let me just say some things and let me know if this covers...
The plaque, the plaque ... I don't see any plaque. I was going to ask you what you meant and then -- oh yeah THAT plaque! Of course I saw it, took...
I'm a litttle pressed for time but I do want to rate your statement. I don't know if it's the kind of response you're looking for or not but I'll...
samson I certainly agree with the importance of what you are talking about. I want to acknowledge that, I don't want your post to go un-noticed or...
Hello Random Andy here I am again and it was good to see your last post. The bottom line is I am unable to really answer any of the...
Yes you're absolutely right there is a relativistic equation for KE, the equation I gave was the old nonrelativistic Newtonian one. I hadn't...
The train example. My favorite. If we could just get this figured out, as I said before, I think it would go a long way in helping us understand...
Random Andy now I'll respond to your other two posts about the astronauts and the train example. But listen I don't understand all this myself....
Random Andy sorry I was away a couple days. Hey in the following my format is screwed up again I don't seem to be able to figure out how to...
Random Andy I have two physics books on my bookshelf, both textbooks. The old one is from 1969. I always liked it, it explains things rather...
I understand that I am seeing events that happpened one and two years ago when I look at objects having respective distances of one and two light...
Random Andy I was away for the long weekend (Monday was a holiday, Labor Day, here). During that time I couldn't help thinking about...
Lets talk facts. Average US oil consumption is 20.4 million barrels daily. Gasoline use is 9 million barrels a day or about 44% of the total....
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