Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / January 2006

It seems that Pentcho Valev ignores the differences between
   - bad science and bad engineering,
   - bad engineering and bad cost management.

Pentcho Valev is working hard to become a caricature of himself.
Up until now we have established that Pentcho Valev ignores the
differences between:
   - bad science and bad engineering,
   - bad engineering and bad cost management,
   - honing the foundations of a theory and fighting it,
   - physics and linguistics,
   - an article written in 1905 and a theory created in 1915,
   - understanding a book and turning its pages,
   - speed and relative (aka closing) speed,
   - doing algebra and randomly writing down symbols,
   - real life and a Usenet hobby group,
   - receiving a detailed reply and being ignored,
   - the three things that smell like fish,
   - inertial and non-inertial,
   - speed and velocity,
   - an article and a book,
   - relativity and disguised ether addiction,
   - algebra and analytic geometry,
   - kneeling down and bending over,
   - local and global,
   - a sycophant in English and in French,
   - a relation and an equation,
   - massive and massless particles,
   - a Mexican poncho and a Sears poncho,
   - implication and equivalence,
   - group velocity and phase velocity,
   - science and religion

Dirk Vdm

You miss the point. Had the O rings held, a B movie actor could
have portayed himself as someone who knows as much
about physics as his wife knows about psychics.

Projecting this sort of political image is invaluable in times
when you may need to occupy a county with 1/3 the
necessary personel or win a election the support of only
20 percent of the electorate.

This kind of political power is invaluable...
Well worth risking the lives of a few jet-jocks. ;-)

"Feynman's Appendix to the Rogers Commission
Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident"
http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html

Sue...

Science has always been phony and it will always be that way, unless
humans concentrate on what is immediately given and measurable rather
than on what can be postulated. But that requires a major paradigm
shift of enormous proportions. Yes, those that fought Logical
Positivism today enjoy the rip off gains of their victory at the
expense of a planet population with avg IQ below 90 with people who
take seriously the big bang, black holes, frame dragging, spacetime,
and the rest of the boggies and think these are truths for granted and
beyond any dispute.

The epitomy of the whole thing is the fight between Intelligent
designers and evolutionists, a fight carefully designed to distract
attention from the main issues and turn people into fanatics. Every day
more and more scientists fall into the trap and take sides of a really
no issue, since intelligent design searches for a first cause and
science just for models of the effects of whatever causes, first or
final, are there.

Now about Q-rings: simulation is phony science. How many NASA engineers
can build a prototype and test it under real conditions? Most of the
geeks sit in front of a PC and "simulate". NASA has got to pay the
prise for giving too much weight to simulations and forgetting that
science is all about REAL measurement and testing.

Make Logical Positivism your doctrine or perish in the absurdities of
the first Einstein that comes your way.

Mike