From: Sam Wormley on
On 12/23/09 5:58 AM, Ralph Garbage wrote:

>
> Henry Wilson DSc is really really genius!
> You couldn't even come close to challenging his powerful mind.
>

Henri's and you posting records show otherwise.

From: Ralph Garbage on
On Dec 23, 6:52 am, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/23/09 5:58 AM, Ralph Garbage wrote:
>
>
>
> > Henry Wilson DSc is really really genius!
> > You couldn't even come close to challenging his powerful mind.
>
>    Henri's and you posting records show otherwise.

I'm rubber and you're glue...
You are unworthy to even stand in Henry Wilson DSc's shadow!
From: Sam Wormley on
On 12/23/09 10:59 AM, Ralph Garbage wrote:
> On Dec 23, 8:44 am, Sam Wormley<sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/23/09 10:32 AM, Ralph Garbage wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 23, 7:28 am, Sam Wormley<sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 12/23/09 9:15 AM, Ralph Garbage wrote:
>>
>>>>> NO!
>>>>> I'M rubber and YOU'RE glue... (i.e. I bounce and YOU stick)
>>
>>>> True! You can't stay grounded Ralph--You bounce from
>>>> misunderstanding to misunderstanding and unable to use
>>>> mathematics correctly... no wonder you identify with
>>>> rubber.
>>
>>>> I stick to principles of physics and you bounce about
>>>> like an untutored fool!
>>
>>> Hitting the 'nog a bit early, are we?
>>> You want to try again?
>>
>>> In the mean time:
>>> Henry Wilson DSc is a GOD!
>>> A GOD I say!
>>
>> Gods only exist in some people's minds.... get over it.
>
> Your unsupported declarations are meaningless.
> The only things of true significance is what goes on in Henry Wilson
> DSc's mind! Avail yourself of his great wisdom and let it sink in.
> All Hail Henry Wilson DSc!!

I'll bet before you morphed in to henri/henry, you got down
on your knees to worship A. Einstein!


From: dlzc on
Dear jmfbahciv:

On Dec 22, 7:32 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote:
> dlzc wrote:
> > On Dec 21, 5:57 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote:
> > ...
> >> As somebody who is "geometry-
> >> challenged", it is difficult to
> >> think about light.  I keep looking
> >> at a crystal ball I have which
> >> makes things appear upsidedown.
> >> Even though I see the effect of
> >> light going through the crystal,
> >> I can't seem to get my brain to
> >> "see" the geometry in my head
> >> without paper and pencil. Trying
> >> to "see" something that appears
> >> as a particle and a wave at the
> >> same time is very difficult.  I
> >> have similar problems with
> >> fields in 3D.
>
> > That is the problem with our
> > brains.  We have to define the
> > present in terms of the past,
> > rather than realizing the brain
> > of a child apperceives reality
> > without having to carry that
> > baggage around.  Look to a new
> > experience.  No quantum object is
> > either localized and brittle as a
> > billiard ball, nor is it part of
> > some infinitely divisible whole.
> > The conundrum and quandry is based
> > on our macroscopic prejudice.
>
> Sure.  I also think the geometry
> problems I have are hardware
> problems.  ;-)
>
> > You have seen the large "funnels"
> > that you can place coins in that
> > will spin around and around, to
> > ultimately end up as a donation
> > in a cup in its "black hole"?
>
> No, I don't think I've seen those.

They were used as donation collectors in grocery stores for about 15
years, but I have not seen many on a few years. Here is one:
http://www.spiralwishingwells.com/guide/physics.html

> Are you talking about something
> like an exhibit I saw at Chicago's
> Museum of Science and Industry in
> its math section?  it had a huge
> inverted cone-shaped platform (it
> wasn't a cone but I can't think of
> the correct term).  Every 5 maybe
> 10 minutes a steel ball would drop
> and the ball would travel through
> arcs on this platform.  Eventually
> the arcs would be shorter and
> shorter and the ball would drop
> through the narrow cone piece.
>
> > You can form a "wavefront" of
> > coins and achieve all sorts
> > "optical" phenomenon.
>
> > Wave models allow us to model
> > really huge numbers of photons,
> > and achieve a desired result.
> > They are handy approximations.
> > They are tools.  Put down the
> > hammer, and stop seeing the world
> > around you as comprised of nails...
> >  ;>)
>
> Or screws :-).
>
> My mother just gave me one of the
> two gyroscopes that Dad bought
> when we were kids.  I was going to
> use it to play physics.  She gave
> me the busted one :-(.

Seems like all the good toy stores are gone (FAO Schwartz and Sharper
Image) near me, so that leaves on-line...

> those things are another example
> of puzzlement :-).

I just want to know how waterfalls make ozone...

David A. Smith
From: eric gisse on
Benj wrote:

[...]

Such confidence for knowing so little.