You're making up your own definition of 'crank'. Modesty or lack of doesn't make you a crank. Posting BS and proclaiming it's physics does.
Wait, which of us posted this thread? I forget...
Then he should clarify. And besides, your maths is so bad, you think that $$(a-ib)(a+ib) = a^{2}-b^{2}+2abi$$. No, $$a^{2}-b^{2}+2abi = (a+ib)^{2}$$. See the difference? Seriously, this is even more basic than the maths I posted. The maths I posted someone who understands relativity can understand. The maths you just got wrong a child can see is wrong.
Why do you post that? You know I'll see through your nonsense. You don't know anything about Hamiltonians, because they require a grasp of things like variational principles, particularly when dealing with fields, as in relativity. You've previously demonstrated you don't understand energy in relativity by not realising the problem with summing energy in gravitational fields.
Again, why post that? I have previously explained, including given an example, of the difference between mass and energy's sign. They are NOT synomynous. Dirac uses the difference to predict the existence of antimatter. The difference between them explains the Penrose Process.
This is why I reply to your posts, you lie about your understanding all the time. You complain I lack modesty and yet you continually claim you ,know more than you do. I claim I know a bit about relativity. Why? Because I've been to lectures, sat exams and as it happens the Black Hole lecture course I wrote those notes from was a course I got a distinction in. Something I'm especially proud of.
When someone asks me for details, I provide. When I ask you, you refuse, yet you challenged me first. And now you complain I challenge you?! You initiate threads and then refuse to partake.
You are a compulsive, unashamed liar. You lie about your work, your education and I'm 99.9% sure you lied about your brother in your PM on the weekend. Something which you yourself said you'd have to be sick to lie about but it seems that way...
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I didn't care that you couldn't reply. You weren't part of the conversation. I was using you as a prime example of a crank who makes claims he cannot back up and who then puts his foot in it by thinking something he finds hard others find hard. Except in this case, it was multiplying out brackets. I used StevenA as an example too and I'm 100% certain he won't reply to that thread. I doubt he even reads it. I use Zephir as an example still. The fact is, if you didn't put your foot in it and make claims your brain can't cash then you wouldn't have been an example. Funny how I don't use Rpenner or BenTheMan as an example. Well no, it's not funny, because they have proven they can do the physics they say they can.
It's simple. If you make a claim which is different from verified physics, give some evidence. If you make claims about 'proving' things, give the details. If you can't and your posts imply you don't understand the details, I'll say something. If you don't like that the best recourse is to put me in my place by proving your claims.
Hear that Walter? If you think I'm wrong, give explicit details. Given you're talking about GR so much, I assume you know something about it. So it should be within your ability. If not, please explain why not.
yes, i did post that... but hey, are you forgetting you have done these things more than me when modesty is concerned, because let's face it, you ignored me when i said, ''Whilst i am not clean myself on such things,'' i was telling you that you superfluously do it every day, and this satisfaction of behaviour is linked to being unsatisfactory about yourself.
And a warning alphanumeric... You said, ''You are a compulsive, unashamed liar. You lie about your work, your education and I'm 99.9% sure you lied about your brother in your PM on the weekend. Something which you yourself said you'd have to be sick to lie about but it seems that way...''
For your own good, stay out of this affair now. I asked you in confidence to give me a break for a while, because you where stressing me to the point i was thinking bad things.
You have no compassion. None whatsoever. I think you've led your un-modest judgment to even contemplate something like that i would tell you, to be a falsity, because it is quite clear you don't understand the meaning of ''personal message.'' It wasn't something i was going to broadcast all over this forum, in case of personal attacks such as, ''why tell us, are you looking for sympathy,'' but in your case, all i asked you for was time.