Yes and over many threads. I would estimate there are thousands of posts answering chinglu's trolling; at least he's lately confining it to the forum created for spouting nonsense (or at least to give them an outlet). Lakon is approaching this from the pedestrian view, and engaging it outside of technical content, and also expressed disinterest in learning it. If Lakon were a customer offering us big money just to reduce the science into simple nuggets of folk wisdom, we'd certainly have a challenge on our hands. I'm not sure if that's what Lakon has in mind or not, since I think the remark was "I don't care" (about relativity).
The rest of us are motivated by different things, I guess. I joined in connection with a specific idea I was following, and got more caught up in the nature of trolls here which seem to be all operating out of a covert agenda -- my assumption is that they are all fundamentalists. I'm also assuming there are really only several hardcore trolls here operating as multiple sock puppets.
There is a universal trait among them which goes far beyond plain skepticism. They are expressing angst, and directing it against the most commonly disseminated topics from childhood schooling in science. For example they are quick to disparage Einstein and Newton, and often they will hold up Tesla as a martyr of persecution by the mainstream. And of course they are associating "mainstream" with blind robots following what they were told to do, as if scientists have no creative talent, imagination, or personal insight to give them their own skeptical and original views on things.
Because this mode of communication allows or even encourages covert antics, lately I'm prone to ask the cranks up front to state their motivation for assuming that science is anything other than knowledge of nature. Often I will just ask them to show their hand. Other than religious indoctrination, the only other motive I've been able to come up with is psychopathic personality disorders. For example, chinglu expresses the persona of a child who failed out of math and science in early schooling. We might infer that a few of these cases were due to existing mental, emotional and behavioral problems. Presumably in a person who was either never treated for this, or else treatment has been unsuccessful, a few such persons might develop a true phobia of science such as chinglu's, and of similar people.
I was curious about Lakon's reaction to your posts. I haven't read everything you posted, but I've read enough to sense that you are not ignorant of the first principles that folks like chinglu are incapable of articulating. I thought it might be interesting to see if Lakon could find merit in what you've posted. I wasn't sure if I represented you accurately, but there is a healthy rationale for not answering some questions directly when we sense that we'e feeding the troll.
Of course there is nothing wrong with saying that a star ship observer with magical instruments could probably make observations of the Earth's motion from light years away. The fallacy in chinglu's claims (as usual) include the failure to reconcile that there are two clocks running at different relative rates. This has been his stumbling block over a lengthy history of posting in multiple threads. It occurred to me to give an example of chinglu's blind spot by way of an example.
Suppose he were to start with a special notepad that has a very internal stable clock source. Let's say it's accurate to within one second over 12 years. Chinglu hires one of us to write him an app that triggers from this clock, and shows the orbital position of the Earth relative to the sun as a graphical display, and it updates the clock and calendar on the screen one per second. Further chinglu plugs this device into a power supply and leaves it running at his bedside. Every morning he gets up and checks it, and every night before going to bed, and a year later he confirms by listening to shortwave broadcasts of universal coordinated time, that his device is correct within 1/12th of a second (and for an additional fee we him with that measurement).
He takes the device onto a magical spaceship that can travel at near light speed. He leaves and doesn't turn around until the ship's sensor tells him the Earth has made 6 orbits, or 12 years round trip. However each time the ship's sensor tells him the Earth is eclipsing the Sun (it's been another year) he checks his device only to discover that it's running slower than he thinks it should. At the moment sensors detect the 6th eclipse and the ship turns around, his device is showing that the Earth should have only completed 5 eclipses. And by the time he returns to a world that long got over its phobias, his device says that only 10 years have passed. Yet the ship sensors reported a total of 12 eclipses. However, from that moment forward his device matches all the other clocks on Earth in terms of elapsed time, and second by second. The calendar is just two years behind.
Therefore, relativity is true and chinglu is a mere troll. I'm assuming he's not religiously striped, but one of those people suffering a personality disorder that has something to do with failing out of school.
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