I've provided content elsewhere which you always ignored. We can discuss it here then, that's fine.
So what if the molecule didn't crash into the other molecule, there were trillions of other molecules that did.
I don't see the relevance at all as I'll explain below. It seems to me you have some very strange notions.
Westmorris, what the hey is so difficult to assess than the absolute zero motion of a point in space. This means only a recognized point that doesn't move.
I understand the intended meaning, but find it short-sighted. How can you know a point isn't moving? You can take it as a convention, sure... but that isn't "absolute", it's presumption. You could verify it from every other point in the universe, sure... but you have no way to verify if what you think of as the universe itself hasn't changed in property or isn't itself moving. Given that you cannot at this juncture, even properly define the extents of the universe, you run into a problem. Further, how does absolute motion fit into the notion of an expanding universe?
The point is the frame, it isn't on a frame.
Who says it is? The issue is relative motion right? It's the label "absolute" the renders the term pointless.
The universe doesn't care if we've found it and we have, though some fail to recognize the point.
Of course not. It's the structure of the universe that's the object of the model of it no? Maybe you've "found it" maybe you haven't. Saying "some fail to recognize the point" regarding theories that haven't withstood the rigors of criticism of the scientific community - stinks of arrogance and immaturity. If your theory is so damned good, it would be irrefutable. Maybe people just aren't ready for your awesomeness! It's certainly true in my case. Well, some people are ready.
It seems that you've glommed onto some ideas that you chose to expand. If you aren't a physicist why do you chose to believe one sect over another?
I'm an engineer. I understand science and respect the process. There is a theory that has withstood it. While it's obviously incomplete, I see no flaw in its logic, and see many with yours like that which we are currently discussing. That and it's painfully clear that almost everyone I've seen complain about SRT or whatever almost always displays a comprehension that appears to me as not at all what SRT is, but some misunderstanding they can't get past. MacM is a prime example. I just don't think the idea of space-time or its basic implications fit in many people's heads, and feel confident that I have a basic understanding of it. If people would reject it for reasons that clearly show problems with it, that might change my mind... but to this point no one on this site who complains about it has demonstrated to me that they understand it well enough to criticize it. I don't mean that as if "I'm the expert". I just mean per my basic understanding, your basic understanding and that of a few others is just wrong and I have no idea how to explain it any more clearly than I have in my thousands of words trying to explain it to mac. James can't even get through to him, and his explanations are far more clear than my own. So many have tried, and so many failed to get through the shell constructed to protect the alternative theories. Bah, regardless... IMO, one must demonstrate they understand what they're criticizing and no one critizing has done so thus far. It's the notion of space-time and its implications that seem to trip people up and cause them to reject it before they've even gotten in far enough to actually criticize something meaningful.
Is it cool to believe in SRT because it is "counter intuitive" and you know how to do that?
What does "cool" have to do with it? Do you think I'd tentatively accept a theory about the nature of space and time because it's "cool"? Conversely, do you think it's "uncool" because it is "counter intuitive" and you simply
don't know how to do that?
Or you've fopund a rfeasonable facsimile of god so you quit looking.
Seems like what you've done. Myself, I think string theory is the most promising theory, but obviously it's not complete either. I can accept that for now, SRT (which is brilliant) is the best thing going and I'm excited to see how things go in this area.
Do you actually demean those you are discussing SRT with because they cannot seem to shake the tradional world they were accustomed to and that has proved to be the one and only?
Where the hell did that come from? You're being absolutist. I demean you for it since you're kind enough to suggest it. I think you're emotionally attached to rejecting SRT. You hate it for whatever reason, and now you don't know anything but hating it, so you continue. You're falling into the simplest, most seductive trap of humanity - you're anthropomorphizing SRT.
Why do you use words you aren't knowledgeable on the usage of?
Show where I've done that. It's not a very kind accusation.
You probably consider yourself a philospher?
Why wouldn't I?
Superluminal would normally nail you to your own cross, but, you seem to say the right words of aggreement so you are tolerated.
I have no idea what you're talking about. SL happens to think I'm a brilliant bastard. He LOVES me. He wants me to be his bitch but I won't allow it. Hehe. Seriously though, what the shit are you on about? What cross did I put up that I should be nailed to?
In other words, SL agrees with those that agree with him, 0thers, he ridicules even though he has never seen the other side of the road. SL is in an agreement circle he is come fortable with though he does confess to a severe state or condition of masochism, he likes the pain,(its probably a sex thing) "then everything gonna be alright" as the song goes.
So now you, who seems obviously biased by your previous interactions with him, are kind enough to psycho-analyze him right here in our precious forum for everyone to see? Your kindness is unbounded, but your analysis SO goddamned irrelevant. Maybe it was just supposed to be funny. I got lost there trying to figure out why you were talking about that.
Me thinks he smokes too much, it makes him cough and it reminds him of the favorite body part of shit smokers when they hand the dube to another, "eer!"
Uhm... okay. I have no idea what he does or does not do too much.
But you have a place to discuss ideas and to be accepted, so believe pilgrim, President Bush will make everything allright, a funky war that we can all believe in as correct, the war and the precious SRT that is that we fight, evil.
So now I'm a coolaid drinker eh? You're wrong.