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From: Phil Bouchard on 15 Dec 2009 21:21 Greg Neill wrote: [...] > So, in your fantasy world changing coordinate systems > changes the size of the thing being measured? The Cartesian coordinates system is not a physical law. If you have simple geometry questions, go to sci.math.
From: Sam Wormley on 15 Dec 2009 21:37 On 12/15/09 8:00 PM, Phil Bouchard wrote: > Greg Neill wrote: > > [..] > >> Sorry, you used a square root so it can't be right, >> can it Phil? Not according to your theory of the >> world. Also, if you thought that irrational >> numbers were scary, using trig functions lands you >> right smack in the land of transcendental numbers... > > This is because you do not understand mathematics. GR will never give > the right answer. > >> Also, since when is the diagonal of a square of >> side length 1 not sqrt(2) ~~ 1.414 ? >> >> Wrong, wrong, wrong, in so very many ways. > > My mistake I used spherical coordinates when polar coordinates were > required. Looky here, Phil: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=square
From: Phil Bouchard on 15 Dec 2009 21:42 Phil Bouchard wrote: > > The Cartesian coordinates system is not a physical law. If you have > simple geometry questions, go to sci.math. In fact z = 0.
From: Phil Bouchard on 15 Dec 2009 21:48 Greg Neill wrote: > > And yet you can't use them to do simple calculations. > You don't even understand the tools you choose to use. I don't want to be a professor so don't act like a student. The Cartesian coordinates system is not a physical law. If you have simple geometry questions, go to sci.math. "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein
From: Phil Bouchard on 15 Dec 2009 21:54
Greg Neill wrote: > > And yet you can't use them to do simple calculations. > You don't even understand the tools you choose to use. Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." -- Albert Einstein "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts!" -- Albert Einstein |