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Louis Savain

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[Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]

Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no such
thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is relative.
One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.
The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
years.

[Speculation]

The above is just one of the *many* solid refutations of exclusive
relativity. It is such an ingrained and chronic form of crackpottery
that it borders on the pathological. The attack on the absolute is so
absurd and so easily proven false that lately I've entertained the
suspicion that it may not be a mere oversight on the part of some of
the powers that control the dissemination of knowledge. What is it
about the knowledge of the absolute that should warrant such a
relentless, century-old campaign to suppress its acceptance.

Admittedly this is a paranoid thought but it arose from my inability to
understand how some of the most intelligent people on earth [Nobel
laureates no less] can subscribe to such blatant falsehoods and cause
countless others to do the same.

Louis Savain

-Can a peer-reviewed community be trusted to honestly critique itself?


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Stephen

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In article <8bqumf$h1s$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain
<louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:

> [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]

Probably due to a total lack of physical content.

>
> Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no such
> thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is relative.

A more precise statement is that we find that the laws of nature do not
require the use of any such concept as 'absolute motion'. 'All motion is
relative' is the cocktail-party-philosophers' version of relativity, not
anything from a science course.


> One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
> a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
> everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.

You seem to be missing some key steps in your logic; in fact you are
missing _all_ the steps, since your conclusion does not follow from
anything in relativity theory. 'Everything is relative' is postmodernism,
not science.

--
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas - Virgil.

Uncle Al

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Louis Savain wrote:
>
> [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
>

> Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no such
> thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is relative.

> One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
> a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
> everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.

> The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
> been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> years.

[snip]

The Global Positioning Satellite System works to astonishing accuracy
(military version), and it is relativistically corrected nine ways
from Sunday Special and General. If you say relativity doesn't work
you are empirically wrong. The worst relativity can be is incomplete,
like Newton's work.

--
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J. Scott Miller

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Louis Savain wrote:

[gibberish deleted for brevity]

>
> Admittedly this is a paranoid thought but it arose from my inability to
> understand how some of the most intelligent people on earth [Nobel
> laureates no less] can subscribe to such blatant falsehoods and cause
> countless others to do the same.

Or the simpler solution - you lack the intelligence to know what relativity
does and does not say.

Experimental evidence to date favors the theories of general and special
relativity and no amount of uninformed hand waving on your part will make that
proof go away.

--
J. Scott Miller, Program Coordinator Scott....@louisville.edu
Gheens Science Center and Rauch Planetarium
http://www.louisville.edu/planetarium
University of Louisville

Paul Lutus

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> [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]

"Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.

> The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
> been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> years.

"Religious dogma"? Now I know why your article was rejected. A scientific
theory is distinguished from a religious belief by a very basic criterion --
falsifiability. Anyone can (in principle) falsify a scientific theory, and
possibly also replace it with another.

Your article contains not a single testable hypothesis. It doesn't deserve
inclusion in a scientific newsgroup.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
>
> Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no such
> thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is relative.
> One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
> a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
> everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.
> The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
> been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> years.
>

> [Speculation]
>
> The above is just one of the *many* solid refutations of exclusive
> relativity. It is such an ingrained and chronic form of crackpottery
> that it borders on the pathological. The attack on the absolute is so
> absurd and so easily proven false that lately I've entertained the
> suspicion that it may not be a mere oversight on the part of some of
> the powers that control the dissemination of knowledge. What is it
> about the knowledge of the absolute that should warrant such a
> relentless, century-old campaign to suppress its acceptance.
>

> Admittedly this is a paranoid thought but it arose from my inability to
> understand how some of the most intelligent people on earth [Nobel
> laureates no less] can subscribe to such blatant falsehoods and cause
> countless others to do the same.
>

Louis Savain

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In article <38E11B12...@hate.spam.net>,
Uncle Al <Uncl...@hate.spam.net> wrote:

>
>
> Louis Savain wrote:
> >
> > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
> >
> > Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no
such
> > thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is
relative.
> > One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
> > a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative
to
> > everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.
> > The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it
has
> > been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> > years.
>
> [snip]
>
> The Global Positioning Satellite System works to astonishing accuracy
> (military version), and it is relativistically corrected nine ways
> from Sunday Special and General. If you say relativity doesn't work
> you are empirically wrong. The worst relativity can be is incomplete,
> like Newton's work.

You misunderstood. I did not say that the theory of relativity is
wrong. I fully accept the mathematical and predictive correctness of
SR and GR. I am saying that the notion that all motion is relative and
that there is no absolute motion because the so-called "laws of
physics" do not require absolute motion, is bogus. Logic tells me that
the only motion that physically exists is absolute, whether or not we
can measure it. It follows that relative motion is abstract, i.e.,
it's in our minds. The consistency of our relative measurements could
not possibly exist without an absolute underpinning. Contradict at
your detriment.

No particle in motion could possibly "know" what its motion is relative
ot anything else in the universe unless it's psychic. If relative
motion is all there is and the particle has no access to the infinite
number of possible relative velocities out there, how does the particle
maintain its velocity?

Louis Savain

-If the laws of physics do not require absolute motion and position,
then the laws of physics should be revised. The logical reasons for
the existence of absolute motion/position are unassailable. To deny
the absolute is to lend a blind eye to a fundamental aspect of nature
that could prove revolutionary in its implications. Why ignore it?
Heck why teach others that it does not exist, as most physicists insist
on doing.

Martin Hogbin

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Louis Savain wrote:

> [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
>
> Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no such
> thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is relative.
> One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
> a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
> everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.
> The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
> been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> years.
>

> [Speculation]


>
> .
>
> Admittedly this is a paranoid thought but it arose from my inability to
> understand how some of the most intelligent people on earth [Nobel
> laureates no less] can subscribe to such blatant falsehoods and cause
> countless others to do the same.
>
> Louis Savain

Have you considered the possibility that you might be wrong?

Martin Hogbin


Louis Savain

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In article <38E11E3D...@louisville.edu>,

"J. Scott Miller" <Scott....@louisville.edu> wrote:
> Louis Savain wrote:
>
> [gibberish deleted for brevity]
>
> >
> > Admittedly this is a paranoid thought but it arose from my
> > inability to understand how some of the most intelligent people on
> > earth [Nobel laureates no less] can subscribe to such blatant
> > falsehoods and cause countless others to do the same.
>
> Or the simpler solution - you lack the intelligence to know what
> relativity does and does not say.

And you cannot read.

> Experimental evidence to date favors the theories of general and
> special relativity and no amount of uninformed hand waving on your
> part will make that proof go away.

You are a knee-jerk idiot Miller and I expected knee-jerk reactions
from your kind. I said nothing against SR and GR in my post. I was
attacking people like you (most physicists) who maintain against all
logic that there is no absolute motion and that the only motion that
exists is relative. I claim that the exact opposite is the truth:
there is no relative motion in nature. Relative motion is 100%
abstract and physically non-existent. Only absolute motion/position is
physical.

> J. Scott Miller, Program Coordinator Scott....@louisville.edu
> Gheens Science Center and Rauch Planetarium
> http://www.louisville.edu/planetarium
> University of Louisville

The Gheens Science Center and Rauch Planetarium hired a fool as program
coordinator.

Louis Savain

James Hunter

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Paul Lutus wrote:

> > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
>

> "Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.
>

> > The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
> > been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> > years.
>

> "Religious dogma"? Now I know why your article was rejected. A scientific
> theory is distinguished from a religious belief by a very basic criterion --
> falsifiability. Anyone can (in principle) falsify a scientific theory, and
> possibly also replace it with another.

That's not true. It's apparently against the laws of religoid null thought
to state that goober math does -not- have anything intrinsic to do with the
universe.


Louis Savain

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In article <stephenwells-2...@mac016.joh.cam.ac.uk>,

stephe...@deathtospam.hotmail.com (Stephen) wrote:
> In article <8bqumf$h1s$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain
> <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
>
> Probably due to a total lack of physical content.

Maybe. They used a form letter claiming that my post was too
speculative.

> > Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no
> > such thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is
> > relative.
>

> A more precise statement is that we find that the laws of nature do
> not require the use of any such concept as 'absolute motion'.

That is what SR maintains and I agree that the so-called laws of
physics are the same in any reference frame. However, if these laws do
not require the existence of the absolute, maybe it's about time that
they are revised because logic tells me (as I wrote in another thread)
that there is no other motion in nature but absolute motion. Are you
denying that physicists have been teaching and continue to teach that
there is no absolute motion? Or do you have your head in the sand?

> 'All motion is
> relative' is the cocktail-party-philosophers' version of relativity,
> not anything from a science course.
>

> > One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
> > a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative
> > to everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to
> > itself.
>

> You seem to be missing some key steps in your logic; in fact you are
> missing _all_ the steps, since your conclusion does not follow from
> anything in relativity theory. 'Everything is relative' is
> postmodernism, not science.

And you seem to have trouble reading. My post said nothing against
the correctness of relativity theory. Heck I mentioned neither SR or
GR in my original post. I am writing against the notion taught by most
of the physics community (including famous physicists) that there is no
absolute motion. Are you claiming that the physics community in
general teaches otherwise? If you are, I can give you quote after
quote of famous physicists claiming that relative motion is all there
is.

> Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas - Virgil.

Indeed. And you'll never know the cause of things (including the
cause of gravity) basing your search on relativity theory. All you'll
have is a cheesy math trick for the prediction of motion measurements.
Big freaking deal!

Rob Viesca

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Louis Savain wrote:

> > J. Scott Miller, Program Coordinator Scott....@louisville.edu
> > Gheens Science Center and Rauch Planetarium
> > http://www.louisville.edu/planetarium
> > University of Louisville
>
> The Gheens Science Center and Rauch Planetarium hired a fool as program
> coordinator.
>
> Louis Savain

Sheesh, I know science is s'pose to be involving, but this mud-slinging
from all sides is just silly.

-Rob


Louis Savain

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In article <Gr9E4.8643$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,

"Paul Lutus" <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:
> > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
>
> "Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.

I think you mean "oxymoron". Maybe I should have written "voodoo
physicists". That might have been more accurate.

>[...]


> Your article contains not a single testable hypothesis.

Maybe you're just too dumb to see it. Read it over and over. Per
chance, it might sink in. It not only gave a logical proof that
absolute motion is the only motion that can physically exist, it also
shows that the relative is abstract and physically non-existent. The
relative is proof of the absolute as it could not make sense without
it, for the same reason that the unemployment rate could not make sense
without the unemployed.

> It doesn't deserve
> inclusion in a scientific newsgroup.

As if I gave a rat's ass. I was just having some fun.


> Paul Lutus
> www.arachnoid.com

Louis Savain

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In article <38E1356C...@idt.net>,
> slinging from all sides is just silly.

I think it's fun.

Louis Savain

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In article <38E1285B...@hogbin.org.uk>,
Martin Hogbin <mar...@hogbin.org.uk> wrote:

>
>
> Louis Savain wrote:
>
> > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
> >
> > Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no
> > such thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is
> > relative. One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it

> > posits a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is
> > relative to everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative
> > to itself. The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind

> > and yet it has been a religious dogma in the physics community for
> > over a hundred years.
> >
> > [Speculation]

> >
> > Admittedly this is a paranoid thought but it arose from my
> > inability to understand how some of the most intelligent people on
> > earth [Nobel laureates no less] can subscribe to such blatant
> > falsehoods and cause countless others to do the same.
> >
> > Louis Savain
>
> Have you considered the possibility that you might be wrong?

About which part?

> Martin Hogbin

Louis Savain

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In article <8brdq2$eif$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>,

"Oliver Keating" <webm...@o-keating.com> wrote:
>
> Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:8bqumf$h1s$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
> <inability to correctly understand relativity snipped>

>[crap deleted]

Keating, I could not give a rat's ass what you think. You are
obviously a mental midget. How's that for a total lack of respect for
the con establishment?

Paul Lutus

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If you should, by some retraining process, become capable of posting
something coherent, you might then receive a coherent reply.

As to the applicability of math to reality, please do not test the "falsity"
of f = GMm/R^2 by jumping off a building. The rest of "goober math" follows
suit -- it applies well to reality. Not all of it. Certainly most of it.
Enough so that it has a rightful place in science.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


James Hunter <James....@Jhuapl.edu> wrote in message
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>
>
> Paul Lutus wrote:
>
> > > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
> >

> > "Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.
> >

> > > The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
> > > been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> > > years.
> >

Uncle Al

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Louis Savain wrote:
>
> In article <38E11B12...@hate.spam.net>,
> Uncle Al <Uncl...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
> >
> >

> > Louis Savain wrote:
> > >
> > > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
> > >

> > > Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no
> such
> > > thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is
> relative.
> > > One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
> > > a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative
> to
> > > everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.

> > > The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it
> has
> > > been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> > > years.
> >

> > [snip]
> >
> > The Global Positioning Satellite System works to astonishing accuracy
> > (military version), and it is relativistically corrected nine ways
> > from Sunday Special and General. If you say relativity doesn't work
> > you are empirically wrong. The worst relativity can be is incomplete,
> > like Newton's work.
>
> You misunderstood. I did not say that the theory of relativity is
> wrong. I fully accept the mathematical and predictive correctness of
> SR and GR. I am saying that the notion that all motion is relative and
> that there is no absolute motion because the so-called "laws of
> physics" do not require absolute motion, is bogus. Logic tells me that
> the only motion that physically exists is absolute, whether or not we
> can measure it. It follows that relative motion is abstract, i.e.,
> it's in our minds. The consistency of our relative measurements could
> not possibly exist without an absolute underpinning. Contradict at
> your detriment.

[snip]

I was prolix. Here is the straight skinny:

You are wrong.

Paul Lutus

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> > "Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.

> I think you mean "oxymoron".

I tnink you need to look up "oxymoron." It is defined as a contradiction in
terms.

> As if I gave a rat's ass. I was just having some fun.

"I was just kidding" is right up there with "I didn't really mean anything I
said." The moderated newsgroups were right to exclude you.

> Maybe you're just too dumb to see it. Read it over and over. Per

> chance, it might sink in. It not only gave a logical proof ...

"Logical proof"? This begs the definition of both logic and proof. Nothing
of the kind exists in any of your posts.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message

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> In article <Gr9E4.8643$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,


> "Paul Lutus" <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:
> > > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
> >

> > "Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.
>

> I think you mean "oxymoron". Maybe I should have written "voodoo
> physicists". That might have been more accurate.
>
> >[...]
> > Your article contains not a single testable hypothesis.
>
> Maybe you're just too dumb to see it. Read it over and over. Per
> chance, it might sink in. It not only gave a logical proof that
> absolute motion is the only motion that can physically exist, it also
> shows that the relative is abstract and physically non-existent. The
> relative is proof of the absolute as it could not make sense without
> it, for the same reason that the unemployment rate could not make sense
> without the unemployed.
>
> > It doesn't deserve
> > inclusion in a scientific newsgroup.
>
> As if I gave a rat's ass. I was just having some fun.
>
>
> > Paul Lutus
> > www.arachnoid.com
>

Paul Lutus

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> > Sheesh, I know science is s'pose to be involving, but this mud-
> > slinging from all sides is just silly.
>
> I think it's fun.

You're also sending an unintended signal -- your ideas have no merit, or you
wouldn't abandon them so quickly. I never saw so many half-baked ideas
become street orphans in such a short time.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message

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> In article <38E1356C...@idt.net>,
> mur...@idt.net wrote:
> >
> >
> > Louis Savain wrote:
> >
> > > > J. Scott Miller, Program Coordinator Scott....@louisville.edu
> > > > Gheens Science Center and Rauch Planetarium
> > > > http://www.louisville.edu/planetarium
> > > > University of Louisville
> > >
> > > The Gheens Science Center and Rauch Planetarium hired a fool as
> > > program coordinator.
> > >
> > > Louis Savain
> >
> > Sheesh, I know science is s'pose to be involving, but this mud-
> > slinging from all sides is just silly.
>
> I think it's fun.
>

Jim Carr

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... note appropriate followups ...

} > The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
} > been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
} > years.


In article <8br9qm$u50$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>

Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> writes:
>
>I did not say that the theory of relativity is wrong.

You implied that it was absurd when you implied that "exclusive
relativity" was what is taught in physics classes, just as you
call teaching relativity "bogus" below.

>I fully accept the mathematical and predictive correctness of
>SR and GR. I am saying that the notion that all motion is relative and
>that there is no absolute motion because the so-called "laws of
>physics" do not require absolute motion, is bogus.

So do you think it is wrong to teach something that gives correct
answers just because you think some strawman version of it is
bogus, despite not having any experimental basis for doing so,
or are you just trolling?

It looks to me like the moderators made an accurate judgement,
since you have given no physical reason for rejecting either
relativity or the teaching of relativity.

--
James A. Carr <j...@scri.fsu.edu> | "The half of knowledge is knowing
http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~jac/ | where to find knowledge" - Anon.
Supercomputer Computations Res. Inst. | Motto over the entrance to Dodd
Florida State, Tallahassee FL 32306 | Hall, former library at FSCW.

Jackie & Barry

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Louis Savain wrote:

> Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no such
> thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is relative.
> One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
> a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
> everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.

I know this will disappoint you, but I also believe that there is
absolute motion.


> The above is just one of the *many* solid refutations of exclusive
> relativity. It is such an ingrained and chronic form of crackpottery
> that it borders on the pathological. The attack on the absolute is so
> absurd and so easily proven false that lately I've entertained the
> suspicion that it may not be a mere oversight on the part of some of
> the powers that control the dissemination of knowledge. What is it
> about the knowledge of the absolute that should warrant such a
> relentless, century-old campaign to suppress its acceptance.

There's no organized campaign, it's just human nature to stay where
we're comfortable, snug, smug and warm.


> Admittedly this is a paranoid thought but it arose from my inability to
> understand how some of the most intelligent people on earth [Nobel
> laureates no less] can subscribe to such blatant falsehoods and cause
> countless others to do the same.

There are many different parameters to intelligence.

Those who win the Nobel Prize for Peace aren't necessarily the most
peaceful - I can think of at least one terrorist leader.

Those who win the Nobel Prize for Physics aren't necessarily getting it
for displaying the most overall intelligence - sometimes its just a
combination, of dogged persistence in a chosen field and of that field
being in fashion.

One kind of intelligence is mimicry. It can take you a long way. It
might even get someone a Nobel Prize, but it won't advance his
understanding very much.

University education is 90% mimicry. It's a useful, but ultimately a sad
kind of intelligence.

Barry

Greg Neill

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Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Again you are misunderstanding what I write. I meant that I was
> having fun trying to get the article published in sci.physics.research
> because I already knew that it would never be accepted.

So, what you're saying is, you are wasting both your time and ours.

James Hunter

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Paul Lutus wrote:

> If you should, by some retraining process, become capable of posting
> something coherent, you might then receive a coherent reply.

I never really -except- coherent replies from Usenet. I except
goober math and that's usually all there is.

> As to the applicability of math to reality, please do not test the "falsity"
> of f = GMm/R^2 by jumping off a building. The rest of "goober math" follows
> suit -- it applies well to reality. Not all of it. Certainly most of it.
> Enough so that it has a rightful place in science.
>
> --
>
> Paul Lutus
> www.arachnoid.com
>
> James Hunter <James....@Jhuapl.edu> wrote in message
> news:38E1264D...@Jhuapl.edu...
> >
> >

> > Paul Lutus wrote:
> >
> > > > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > > > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
> > >
> > > "Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.
> > >

> > > > The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
> > > > been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> > > > years.
> > >

Cyberia

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"Louis Savain" <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>
<snip>

>
> If relative
> motion is all there is and the particle has no access to the infinite
> number of possible relative velocities out there, how does the particle
> maintain its velocity?

How does it maintain its velocity relative to *what* ? :->

Sorry, I couldn't resist that.

Why does "knowledge" of one's velocity consitute a requirement for
"maintaining" that velocity in the absence of any force ?

--
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SeeYa !
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Paul Lutus wrote:

> > > If you should, by some retraining process, become capable of posting
> > > something coherent, you might then receive a coherent reply.
> >
> > I never really -except- coherent replies from Usenet. I except
> > goober math and that's usually all there is.
>

> I said "receive." You said "except." Had you not slept through grammar
> school, you would have said "accept."

No, that's your "elevated" sense of knowing how to mimic
mathemagoobers usings "quotes" makes them "appear"
to know something about logic, really doesn't.


> It goes like this. To assemble words into ideas, you must first learn how to
> assemble letters into words. That is called "spelling." First things first.
> Cart, horse.

Yes, yes, yes. Are you trying to convince me that goobers
can pass spelling tests without the assistance of a machine?

>
>
> --
>
> Paul Lutus
> www.arachnoid.com
>
> James Hunter <James....@Jhuapl.edu> wrote in message

> news:38E16721...@Jhuapl.edu...

Oliver Keating

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Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
<inability to correctly understand relativity snipped>

Absolute motion cannot exist, because it cannot be measured. It always is
relative. Example:

Imagine you are sitting on a train (which moves perfectly smoothly). Now, if
all the curtains are shut you have no way of telling how fast you are going.
The only way you can tell how fast you are going is to look out the window.

Now imagine the train in empty space. If you look out the window now, you
will see nothing - just empty space. Now it is impossible to determine your
speed. You might say the speed is zero, however, we could attach a rocket to
it and accelerate, changing its speed. However, once the rockets have
burned, and you are moving at your new speed, nothing has changed at all,
the speed has changed and you can calculate the change in speed, but still
you cannot calculate the absolute speed.


Now if you take realism and instrumentalism to be the same, what you cannot
measure does not exist. Physics is based on this.

If you want to measure velocity it must always be with respect to some
reference point. There is no such thing in empty space. You could use a
galaxy or star, but if we do, we always talk about the speed relative to a
star or galaxy.

Oliver Keating

Louis Savain

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In article <NqbE4.8755$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,

"Paul Lutus" <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:
> > > Sheesh, I know science is s'pose to be involving, but this mud-
> > > slinging from all sides is just silly.
> >
> > I think it's fun.
>
> You're also sending an unintended signal -- your ideas have no merit,
> or you wouldn't abandon them so quickly. I never saw so many half-
> baked ideas become street orphans in such a short time.
>

I did not abandon anything and I staunchly defend my ideas. I
haven't seen a single refutation yet against my argument that absolute
motion is the only motion that exists. Just a few pompous asses
jerking off.

Louis Savain

Oliver Keating

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Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message

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> In article <8brdq2$eif$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>,
> "Oliver Keating" <webm...@o-keating.com> wrote:
> >

> > Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> > news:8bqumf$h1s$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
> > <inability to correctly understand relativity snipped>
>

> >[crap deleted]
>
> Keating, I could not give a rat's ass what you think. You are
> obviously a mental midget. How's that for a total lack of respect for
> the con establishment?
>
> Louis Savain

Well, the fact that you have not been able to reply to any of my arguments
is a sure sign you have no counter-arguments, so I wonder who the mental
midget is.
--
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Oliver Keating, London UK
ICQ: 553670


Louis Savain

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In article <MfbE4.8744$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,

"Paul Lutus" <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:
> > > "Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.
>
> > I think you mean "oxymoron".
>
> I tnink you need to look up "oxymoron." It is defined as a
contradiction in terms.

I did not say otherwise. I wanted to make sure that is what he meant
because I failed to see how 'establishment physicists' can be a
contradiction in terms.

> > As if I gave a rat's ass. I was just having some fun.
>
> "I was just kidding" is right up there with "I didn't really mean
> anything I said." The moderated newsgroups were right to exclude you.

Again you are misunderstanding what I write. I meant that I was


having fun trying to get the article published in sci.physics.research
because I already knew that it would never be accepted.

> > Maybe you're just too dumb to see it. Read it over and over. Per


> > chance, it might sink in. It not only gave a logical proof ...
>
> "Logical proof"? This begs the definition of both logic and proof.
> Nothing of the kind exists in any of your posts.

I beg to differ. Let me say in kind that your posts are just empty
exercises in pomposity, something that I've come to expect from the
self-congratulatory physics community.

Louis Savain

-Definition of peer-review: incestuous admiration.

Paul Lutus

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> I did not abandon anything and I staunchly defend my ideas.

What? Are you imitating Nixon now? "Previous statement are inoperative"?

You've already abandoned your position, you never expressed any coherent
scientific ideas, what exactly are you staunchly defending? And I should
tell you, your postulate, "As if I gave a rat's ass" definitely does not fit
into the category.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message

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> In article <NqbE4.8755$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,


> "Paul Lutus" <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:
> > > > Sheesh, I know science is s'pose to be involving, but this mud-
> > > > slinging from all sides is just silly.
> > >
> > > I think it's fun.
> >
> > You're also sending an unintended signal -- your ideas have no merit,
> > or you wouldn't abandon them so quickly. I never saw so many half-
> > baked ideas become street orphans in such a short time.
> >
>
> I did not abandon anything and I staunchly defend my ideas. I
> haven't seen a single refutation yet against my argument that absolute
> motion is the only motion that exists. Just a few pompous asses
> jerking off.
>
> Louis Savain
>
>

Louis Savain

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In article <8brg7h$mmv$1...@news.fsu.edu>,

j...@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) wrote:
>
> ... note appropriate followups ...

You can kiss my ass with your followups Carr. This discussion is
relevant to all aspects of physics because it deals with something
fundamental. I'm fed up with your chicken shit attempts at
censorship. If you don't like what's being said here, use your kill
file. Don't try to bottle it within sci.physics.relativty.

> } > The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it

> ) > has been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a
> ) > hundred years.


>
> In article <8br9qm$u50$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>
> Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> writes:
> >
> >I did not say that the theory of relativity is wrong.
>
> You implied that it was absurd when you implied that "exclusive
> relativity" was what is taught in physics classes,

Indeed that is what is taught even though I (and many others) have
found nothing in the theory of relativity that proved or even asserted
that there is no absolute motion. That is not to say that Einstein
himself did not make that assertion elsewhere. It was wrong then and
it is wrong now.

> just as you
> call teaching relativity "bogus" below.

I do no such thing. Why the blatant lie Carr? I call teaching
**exclusive relativty** bogus because it is. There is a difference
between teaching exclusive relativity and just teaching relativity.
The former denies the existence of the absolute and the latter doesn't.

> >I fully accept the mathematical and predictive correctness of
> >SR and GR. I am saying that the notion that all motion is relative
> >and that there is no absolute motion because the so-called "laws of
> >physics" do not require absolute motion, is bogus.
>
> So do you think it is wrong to teach something that gives correct
> answers just because you think some strawman version of it is
> bogus, despite not having any experimental basis for doing so,

No, I think it's chicken shit at best and dishonest at worst to teach
that SR does away with absolute motion. It does no such thing because
it's easy to show that relative motion is 100% abstract and that nature
could not give a rat's ass about the relative. Only an establishment
con artist like you would deny it. Not that I care though.

> or are you just trolling?

Have you stopped beating your wife?

> It looks to me like the moderators made an accurate judgement,
> since you have given no physical reason for rejecting either
> relativity or the teaching of relativity.

Your use of the phrase "physical reason" is telling. It is a common
chicken shit copout used by chicken shit physicists with their backs to
the wall. Is physics exempt from logic that logical reasons can no
longer be used in arguments against the crap that it spews forth to the
unwary? It looks to me like the moderators of sci.physics.research are
a bunch of self-involved pompous asses like you and cannot stand seeing
their beloved little community belittled and their noses rubbed in
their own feces.

> James A. Carr <j...@scri.fsu.edu>

I feel sory for the students at FSU. They've been invaded by
dishonest morons.

Rob Viesca

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Louis Savain wrote:

> Maybe you're just too dumb to see it. Read it over and over. Per

> chance, it might sink in. It not only gave a logical proof that
> absolute motion is the only motion that can physically exist, it also
> shows that the relative is abstract and physically non-existent. The
> relative is proof of the absolute as it could not make sense without
> it, for the same reason that the unemployment rate could not make sense
> without the unemployed.
>

> Louis Savain

Well, (no bad attitude meant) it seems that you're pretty confident
about your proof. The question is: If it is true, does it really belong on
a newsgroup? I think if one cares enough for a proven hypthesis they should
go ahead and try to publish their work. Going on usenet, presenting an idea
when you know people will try to, or suceed in shooting down, isn't exactly
a good scientific prcess in getting your idea known.

Just a thought,

-Rob

--
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"With Infinite time comes Infinite chances. With Infinite chances comes
Infinite numbers. Since Infinity has no number it is uncertain. Therefore
Infinite time disproves all certainty."


Louis Savain

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In article <kicE4.8818$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,

"Paul Lutus" <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:
> > I did not abandon anything and I staunchly defend my ideas.

>[crap deleted]

Eat shit Lutus.

Louis Savain

-There are two dangerous types of crackpots, the establishment
physicist who teaches crap to others and the others (like Lutus) who
kiss their asses.

Louis Savain

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In article <svcE4.17988$Xk2....@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>,
"Greg Neill" <gne...@netcom.ca> wrote:

> So, what you're saying is, you are wasting both your time and ours.

If you think your time is being wasted put me in your kill file and
fuck off. See if I give a shit.

Louis Savain

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> I beg to differ. Let me say in kind that your posts are just empty
> exercises in pomposity, something that I've come to expect from the
> self-congratulatory physics community.

And you plan to post some physics exactly when? Saying, "The absurdity of
exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has been a religious dogma
in the physics community for over a hundred
years" doesn't fit the bill. It is an argument without any scientific
substance.

Calling an idea "absurd" or "religious" conveys exactly no scientific
meaning. Calling your own views "logical," without explaining the logic,
also has no scientific meaning.

And all your posts suffer from a mistake in basic reasoning. You say
physicists deny the existence of absolute motion. This is false. Physicists
only say you cannot *detect* absolute motion.

If absolute motion cannot be detected, it is outside the realm of physics.

It is like asserting that physicists deny the existence of an ether. If you
had made this claim (just an example), it would suffer from the same logical
error. Physicists do not say there is no ether. They only say it cannot be
detected.

Things that cannot be detected are outside the realm of possible evidence,
measurement, assertion, falsification, and therefore of science.
--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message

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> In article <MfbE4.8744$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,


> "Paul Lutus" <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:
> > > > "Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.
> >
> > > I think you mean "oxymoron".
> >
> > I tnink you need to look up "oxymoron." It is defined as a
> contradiction in terms.
>
> I did not say otherwise. I wanted to make sure that is what he meant
> because I failed to see how 'establishment physicists' can be a
> contradiction in terms.
>
> > > As if I gave a rat's ass. I was just having some fun.
> >
> > "I was just kidding" is right up there with "I didn't really mean
> > anything I said." The moderated newsgroups were right to exclude you.
>
> Again you are misunderstanding what I write. I meant that I was
> having fun trying to get the article published in sci.physics.research
> because I already knew that it would never be accepted.
>

> > > Maybe you're just too dumb to see it. Read it over and over. Per

> > > chance, it might sink in. It not only gave a logical proof ...
> >
> > "Logical proof"? This begs the definition of both logic and proof.
> > Nothing of the kind exists in any of your posts.
>
> I beg to differ. Let me say in kind that your posts are just empty
> exercises in pomposity, something that I've come to expect from the
> self-congratulatory physics community.
>
> Louis Savain
>
> -Definition of peer-review: incestuous admiration.
>
>

Gregory L. Hansen

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In article <8br9qm$u50$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <38E11B12...@hate.spam.net>,
>Uncle Al <Uncl...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Louis Savain wrote:
>> >
>> > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
>> > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
>> >
>> > Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no
>such
>> > thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is
>relative.
>> > One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
>> > a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative
>to
>> > everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.
>> > The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it
>has
>> > been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
>> > years.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> The Global Positioning Satellite System works to astonishing accuracy
>> (military version), and it is relativistically corrected nine ways
>> from Sunday Special and General. If you say relativity doesn't work
>> you are empirically wrong. The worst relativity can be is incomplete,
>> like Newton's work.
>
> You misunderstood. I did not say that the theory of relativity is
>wrong. I fully accept the mathematical and predictive correctness of

>SR and GR. I am saying that the notion that all motion is relative and
>that there is no absolute motion because the so-called "laws of
>physics" do not require absolute motion, is bogus. Logic tells me that
>the only motion that physically exists is absolute, whether or not we
>can measure it. It follows that relative motion is abstract, i.e.,

If you can't measure it, then it doesn't matter. Physicists are not
particularly interested in an absolute frame of reference, whether or not
it exists, until they need to write out equations of motion that actually
reference it. And if you can't test it experimentally, all the logic in
the world can't tell you if you're right. Your logic could be flawless,
but it's only as good as your premises.

>it's in our minds.

All of physical theory is a construct of the mind. It can be nothing
else. What's important is if the theory makes correct predictions about
nature.

>The consistency of our relative measurements could
>not possibly exist without an absolute underpinning. Contradict at
>your detriment.

Contradiction: the accuracy and of predictions of relativity with
experiment. If the consistency of our relative measurements could not
possibly exist without an absolute underpinning, then relativity in its
current form just wouldn't work.

>No particle in motion could possibly "know" what its motion is relative
>ot anything else in the universe unless it's psychic. If relative


>motion is all there is and the particle has no access to the infinite
>number of possible relative velocities out there, how does the particle
>maintain its velocity?

Maintain its velocity with respect to what? It just sits there and lets
the universe pass it by. The particle doesn't need little rockets to
force its way through the aether. It looks like your argument has an
unstated premise, that there is an absolute frame of reference with
respect to which the particle must maintain a velocity. Given that, it's
not surprising you'd conclude there's an absolute frame of reference.

But unless its effects can be measured, it just doesn't matter. Any terms
referencing an absolute frame of reference would drop out of all equations
of motion. It would have to be added artificially, only to cancel in the
final solution. So, in terms of physical theory, what can be gained? And
what would you like practicing physicists to do about it?
--
"We aim to please. So you aim, too, please."


Gregory L. Hansen

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In article <lRcE4.8865$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
Paul Lutus <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:

>And all your posts suffer from a mistake in basic reasoning. You say
>physicists deny the existence of absolute motion. This is false. Physicists
>only say you cannot *detect* absolute motion.

Probably some do and some don't. I'm more in the "shut up and calculate"
camp.

>If absolute motion cannot be detected, it is outside the realm of physics.
>
>It is like asserting that physicists deny the existence of an ether. If you
>had made this claim (just an example), it would suffer from the same logical
>error. Physicists do not say there is no ether. They only say it cannot be
>detected.

Again, some do. Some say it doesn't exist. Some think it does, and
articles about aether theories are regularly published in journals like
_Foundations of Physics_. There are lots of physicists that collectively
hold lots of different opinions. And that, of course, is a good thing.

Louis Savain

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In article <38E1554A...@idt.net>,

mur...@idt.net wrote:
>
>
> Louis Savain wrote:
>
> > Maybe you're just too dumb to see it. Read it over and over. Per
> > chance, it might sink in. It not only gave a logical proof that
> > absolute motion is the only motion that can physically exist, it
> > also shows that the relative is abstract and physically non-
> > existent. The relative is proof of the absolute as it could not
> > make sense without it, for the same reason that the unemployment
> > rate could not make sense without the unemployed.
> >
> > Louis Savain
>
> Well, (no bad attitude meant) it seems that you're pretty confident
> about your proof. The question is: If it is true, does it really
> belong on a newsgroup? I think if one cares enough for a proven
> hypthesis they should go ahead and try to publish their work. Going
> on usenet, presenting an idea when you know people will try to, or
> suceed in shooting down, isn't exactly a good scientific prcess in
> getting your idea known.
>
> Just a thought,

Well I'm not trying to convince anyone in the physics community and I
am not after scientific press. I'm trying to resurrect some very old
ideas and allow people who have not yet been brainwashed by the con
establishment to make up their own minds. My goal is to see some real
progress made in fundamental physics, especially in our understanding
of gravity. I have resigned myself to the fact that it will not come
from the physics community. Exclusive relativity is an unsurmountable
barrier in the further understanding of nature. I would not be far off
to suppose that over 90% of physicists believe in exclusive
relativity. They can have it. The physics community does not have a
monopoly on intelligence (on the contrary) and there are many other
highly intelligent people out there who can see through their crap.
Those are the people I'm counting on.
Newton tried his best to explain the necessity of the absolute to
others but it went over the heads of modern physicists who thought they
knew better. Unfortunately Newton tried to couch his ideas in terms of
an absolute space "out there." Leibniz was right in opposing the
concept of a space "out there", insisting that "space is nothing but
the nature of the order of things." IOW, space is abstract and
particles are all there is. Space is a fictitious construct invented
by those who never understood Leibniz and who try to con others into
believing that they are the sole legitimate givers of knowledge on
planet Earth. They can kiss my ass. The relativists continued with
the stupid notion of a space being "out there" but rejected the
absolute. They are wrong on both count.

Louis Savain

-Down with voodoo physics.

Louis Savain

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In article <8brmfk$b52$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,

glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
> In article <8br9qm$u50$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:

[...]
Hansen I remember you from way back when and I can't say that I was
impressed with your grasp of things. Before I respond to your
incoherent drivel let me first say that I gave a logical argument
against exclusive relativity in my original post. I claim that this
argument is unassailable and yet none of you have come up with a
counter argument. Here it is again:

"One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself."

Now all that you pompous asses need to do is refute it or shut the fuck
up. So far all I've got from you yahoos is "see how big my dick is".
Is this an exercise in exhibitionism or do you just love to hitch to
the moon in public?

Hansen, I'll get to your dumb arguments later. I gotta to attend to
more important things right now.

Louis Savain

Unless you can grok the absolute, you have not understood anything as
you ought to.

Uncle Al

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Louis Savain wrote:
>
> In article <8brg7h$mmv$1...@news.fsu.edu>,
> j...@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) wrote:
> >
> > ... note appropriate followups ...
>
> You can kiss my ass with your followups Carr. This discussion is
> relevant to all aspects of physics because it deals with something
> fundamental. I'm fed up with your chicken shit attempts at
> censorship. If you don't like what's being said here, use your kill
> file. Don't try to bottle it within sci.physics.relativty.

Jim Carr is a professional, practicing physicist. His commentary is
never anything other than well-measured, literate, founded in refereed
literature, and free of emotional bias. You are an empirically
ignorant perserverative lout.

Uncle Al is not constrained by considerations of etiquette. You are
also an irremediable asshole shitting on clean sheets. Your whining
is not "fundamental" to anything. Your squeals echo 19th century
poobah physicists who were left behind to die by a vital science
mirrored in technological progress.

Go ahead, submit to sci.physics.research and have it thrown back in
your face by moderators. Submit to professional literature and be
called an untutored fool by your betters. Publish it yourself and
join that sacrosanct pantheon of legislated values of pi and
extraterrestrial proctologists.

Physical reality is not subject to political convenience, majority
vote, or personal delusion. Vist an insane asylum if you think
sincerity counts for anything in the grand scheme of things

Robert J. Kolker

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Louis Savain wrote:

>
> Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no such
> thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is relative.

Let it be granted that there is such a thing as absolute motion. Can
you suggest a way of measuring it so it can be used for something?
A quantity which cannot be measured in principle, might just as well
not exist?

So is absolute motion in principle unmeasurable or is the the case that no
one has figured out how to do it?

In particular, how does one measure absolute unaccelerated motion?

If you were in a box that was moving in such a way that no force
could be detected, how would you measure your motion (without
looking outside). In particular if you were in this box and you let
go of a ball that was in your hand, it would just hang there. That is an
indicator that the motion of the box is unaccelerated. How would you
know that the box was in (absolute motion) or absolutely not moving.
All observed facts would be the same in either case (provided you
don't look outside). And even if you did look outside and saw motion
w.r.t. another body how would you know the absolute motion of the box
you are in and the absolute motion of the other body?

Bob Kolker

Louis Savain

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In article <38E1713F...@hate.spam.net>,

Uncle Al <Uncl...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
>
>
> Louis Savain wrote:
> >
> > In article <8brg7h$mmv$1...@news.fsu.edu>,
> > j...@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) wrote:
> > >
> > > ... note appropriate followups ...
> >
> > You can kiss my ass with your followups Carr. This discussion is
> > relevant to all aspects of physics because it deals with something
> > fundamental. I'm fed up with your chicken shit attempts at
> > censorship. If you don't like what's being said here, use your kill
> > file. Don't try to bottle it within sci.physics.relativty.
>
> Jim Carr is a professional, practicing physicist. His commentary is
> never anything other than well-measured, literate, founded in refereed
> literature, and free of emotional bias.

Fuck off Uncle Al. If you don't like my style or my ideas put me in
your kill file. If you stopped kissing ass for just a moment you might
realize that there is plenty of fresh air left in the world after all
you mental midget.

Louis Savain

Paul Lutus

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> Eat shit Lutus.

It is interesting to note how you do all you can to avoid talking about
physics. Given your literacy level, why not follow up to alt.coprophagia?
Your kind of post is welcome there.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message

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> In article <kicE4.8818$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,


> "Paul Lutus" <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:
> > > I did not abandon anything and I staunchly defend my ideas.
>
> >[crap deleted]
>
> Eat shit Lutus.
>
> Louis Savain
>
> -There are two dangerous types of crackpots, the establishment
> physicist who teaches crap to others and the others (like Lutus) who
> kiss their asses.
>
>

Paul Lutus

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> > If you should, by some retraining process, become capable of posting
> > something coherent, you might then receive a coherent reply.
>
> I never really -except- coherent replies from Usenet. I except
> goober math and that's usually all there is.

I said "receive." You said "except." Had you not slept through grammar
school, you would have said "accept."

It goes like this. To assemble words into ideas, you must first learn how to


assemble letters into words. That is called "spelling." First things first.
Cart, horse.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


James Hunter <James....@Jhuapl.edu> wrote in message
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>
>
> Paul Lutus wrote:
>
> > If you should, by some retraining process, become capable of posting
> > something coherent, you might then receive a coherent reply.
>
> I never really -except- coherent replies from Usenet. I except
> goober math and that's usually all there is.
>
>
>
> > As to the applicability of math to reality, please do not test the
"falsity"
> > of f = GMm/R^2 by jumping off a building. The rest of "goober math"
follows
> > suit -- it applies well to reality. Not all of it. Certainly most of it.

> > Enough so that it has a rightful place in science.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Paul Lutus
> > www.arachnoid.com
> >


> > James Hunter <James....@Jhuapl.edu> wrote in message
> > news:38E1264D...@Jhuapl.edu...
> > >
> > >

> > > Paul Lutus wrote:
> > >
> > > > > [Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
> > > > > sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment
physicists]
> > > >

> > > > "Establishment physicists"? That is a contradiction in terms.
> > > >

> > > > > The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it
has
> > > > > been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
> > > > > years.
> > > >

Paul Lutus

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[ with regard to an ether ... ]

> Again, some do. Some say it doesn't exist. Some think it does, and
> articles about aether theories are regularly published in journals like
> _Foundations of Physics_. There are lots of physicists that collectively
> hold lots of different opinions. And that, of course, is a good thing.

Well, of course I agree, but the point is, no matter how people come down in
opinions on the subject, it cannot be detected. Therefore theories about an
ether cannot be falsified. Therefore they are not, strictly speaking,
scientific. Like the nature of gravitons, they are speculations at the
fringe of physics. Interesting, worthwhile, but not a direct subject of
study.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


Gregory L. Hansen <glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
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> In article <lRcE4.8865$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,

Louis Savain

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In article <8bru8h$2f9$1...@bob.news.rcn.net>,

"Cyberia" <cyb...@gscyclone.com> wrote:
> "Louis Savain" <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:8br9qm$u50$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> >
> <snip>

> >
> > If relative
> > motion is all there is and the particle has no access to the
> > infinite number of possible relative velocities out there, how does
> > the particle maintain its velocity?
>
> How does it maintain its velocity relative to *what* ? :->
>
> Sorry, I couldn't resist that.

You're funny. :-D I wish some of the establishment morons who post
on these newsgroups had a similar sense of humor.

> Why does "knowledge" of one's velocity consitute a requirement for
> "maintaining" that velocity in the absence of any force ?

Good question. You just touched upon another aspect of nature that
the con establisnment has succeeded in obfuscating to death, the need
for every effect to have a cause. The establishment con artists have
been preaching for I don't know how long that things stay in motion for
absoluely no reason at all, like voodoo or something. Of course
nothing could be more at odds with logic. If absolute motion exists,
(and there is not a single doubt in my mind that it's the only type of
motion that exists) then a change in position is an effect in need of a
cause. What causes things to move? I have a good idea but I don't
think this is the right thread for it. I'll just say that there can be
no motion without interaction and that the so called void is not empty
at all but must be filled with a tremendous amount of energetic quanta.

Louis Savain

Kevin Terrill

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Louis,
I'm sorry I missed all the fun earlier today, well yesterday. What would
you measure your absolute velocity and position to. Where is 0,0,0,0.
Where is the center of all motion and the beginning of time. Please advise,
there are a few newsgroups here that are dying for that info. But let me
ask you these simple questions, what is a meter?. Why is it as long as it
is? What is a second? Why? What do you measure your absolute velocity
against. What is your reference? What are you measuring relative to? See
the problem when looked at in the purest logical sense, says that it must be
relative, even if there is a 0,0,0,0. All motion would be relative to that,
0,0,0,0. All motion is relative, one could pick any object as 0,0,0,0, and
all objects would be moving relative to that. Even if you had a zero frame
of reference, all motion would be relative to that. Any body in motion has
to be moving relative to something, otherwise it isn't moving.

K.T.

Louis Savain wrote in message <8bqumf$h1s$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...


>[Two slightly different versions of this article were rejected by
>sci.physics.research, a group moderated by establishment physicists]
>

>Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no such
>thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is relative.

>One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
>a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
>everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself.

>The absurdity of exclusive relativity boggles the mind and yet it has
>been a religious dogma in the physics community for over a hundred
>years.
>

>[Speculation]
>
>The above is just one of the *many* solid refutations of exclusive
>relativity. It is such an ingrained and chronic form of crackpottery
>that it borders on the pathological. The attack on the absolute is so
>absurd and so easily proven false that lately I've entertained the
>suspicion that it may not be a mere oversight on the part of some of
>the powers that control the dissemination of knowledge. What is it
>about the knowledge of the absolute that should warrant such a
>relentless, century-old campaign to suppress its acceptance.
>
>Admittedly this is a paranoid thought but it arose from my inability to
>understand how some of the most intelligent people on earth [Nobel
>laureates no less] can subscribe to such blatant falsehoods and cause
>countless others to do the same.
>
>Louis Savain
>
>-Can a peer-reviewed community be trusted to honestly critique itself?

Louis Savain

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In article <38E145FE...@netcom.ca>,
Jackie & Barry <ja...@netcom.ca> wrote:

>
>
> Louis Savain wrote:
>
> > Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no
> > such thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is
> > relative. One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it
> > posits a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is
> > relative to everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative
> > to itself.
>
> I know this will disappoint you,

Well after the reception I got from the usual morons, this sure is a
relief.

> but I also believe that there is
> absolute motion.

At this point it is no longer a matter of belief. That the only
possible form of motion that can exist is absolute motion, is
unassailable. Same goes for position. It bears repeating over and
over, THE RELATIVE IS ABSTRACT, IN THE MIND, AND DOES NOT EXIST.

> > The above is just one of the *many* solid refutations of exclusive
> > relativity. It is such an ingrained and chronic form of crackpottery
> > that it borders on the pathological. The attack on the absolute is
> > so absurd and so easily proven false that lately I've entertained
> > the suspicion that it may not be a mere oversight on the part of
> > some of the powers that control the dissemination of knowledge.
> > What is it about the knowledge of the absolute that should warrant
> > such a relentless, century-old campaign to suppress its acceptance.
>

> There's no organized campaign, it's just human nature to stay where
> we're comfortable, snug, smug and warm.

You may have a point. But I think that a few human beings are
smarter than you give them credit for. Exclusive relativity is so easy
to demolish a child can figure it out. Why can't the physics
intelligentsia figure it out? Could it be self-preservation or just
plain cowardice that prevent them from speaking their minds? Besides,
Sir Isaac Newton explained the necessity for the absolute very well IMO
and that was centuries ago. The know-it-alls dismissed his arguments
and the moronic masses swallowed it hook line and sinker. Most will
never see it.

> > Admittedly this is a paranoid thought but it arose from my
> > inability to understand how some of the most intelligent people on
> > earth [Nobel laureates no less] can subscribe to such blatant
> > falsehoods and cause countless others to do the same.
>

> There are many different parameters to intelligence.
>
> Those who win the Nobel Prize for Peace aren't necessarily the most
> peaceful - I can think of at least one terrorist leader.
>
> Those who win the Nobel Prize for Physics aren't necessarily getting
> it for displaying the most overall intelligence - sometimes its just a
> combination, of dogged persistence in a chosen field and of that field
> being in fashion.
>
> One kind of intelligence is mimicry. It can take you a long way. It
> might even get someone a Nobel Prize, but it won't advance his
> understanding very much.
>
> University education is 90% mimicry. It's a useful, but ultimately a
> sad kind of intelligence.

Well I agree and you've given me a few things to ponder.

Louis Savain

Paul Lutus

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> The establishment con artists have
> been preaching for I don't know how long that things stay in motion for
> absoluely no reason at all, like voodoo or something. Of course
> nothing could be more at odds with logic.

What would be at odds with logic would be objects that changed their state
of motion with no cause. If we keep this up for a few weeks, we will
re-invent Newtonian physics. But what would be the point? It is your prose
that lacks logic, not physics.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message

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Louis Savain

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In article <38E17EB6...@usa.net>,

"Robert J. Kolker" <bobk...@usa.net> wrote:
>
> Louis Savain wrote:
>
> > Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no
> > such thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is
> > relative.
>
> Let it be granted that there is such a thing as absolute motion.

The existence of absolute motion is not something that needs to
be "granted" for argument's sake. There is absolutely no doubt
whatsoever that it's the only type of motion that can physically
exist. If you doubt it, you are either a chicken shit establishment
lackey or you are just stupid.

> Can
> you suggest a way of measuring it so it can be used for something?
> A quantity which cannot be measured in principle, might just as well
> not exist?

I personally do not need to measure absolute motion. Particles do
however, because they have no other option. It is about time that
physicists pull their heads out of their collective asses and realize
that the universe does not revolve around the observer. We must use
thought experiments and put ourselves in the place of a particle in
motion and ask ourselves the following questions: How does the
particle move and how does it maintain its position if it has no access
to its motion relative to anything else?

The answer is that the only properties that a particle has access to
are its own intrinsic properties. By virtue of being intrinsic, these
properties are also absolute. What we measure are extrinsic quantities
that are ultimately dependent on absolute properties. That is the
reason why measurements are consistent: they have a unifying absolute
underpinning.

> So is absolute motion in principle unmeasurable or is the the case
> that no one has figured out how to do it?

Who cares what anyone can or cannot measure? You think particles in
nature gives a hoot about observers and their measurements? All I need
in order to understand nature is to understand what nature cares
about. I want to understand physics from nature's point of view, not
from an observer's point of view and especially not from some chicken
shit physicist who thinks he is the sole legitimate giver of knwledge
on planet earth.
We have deductive powers that we can use to extrapolate new knowledge
from our observations. There is no point in sitting there like a damn
stupid fool whining about what we cannot measure. It is about time we
change our approach to physics from an observer-centric approach to a
particle-centric approach. The observer-centric approach is just
stupid. All it can do is give us a few predictive capabilities but it
cannot give us causal explanations. Once we remove our relative
blinders we will be able to see a world of awesome possibilities that
were heretofore fordidden.
Now I don't expect this to happen from within the physics community.
They are too damn stuck up and they have their chicken shit reputations
to worry about. It's a good thing that the world is full of smart
people who are not a bunch of chicken shit physicists doing chicken
shit physics. They can figure it out on their own as I have. From
that moment on nothing will stand in their way and we will finally have
an explanation for gravity, an explanation that can only come by
accepting the absolute. All that the stupid concept of exclusive
relativity did is put the brakes on further progress in our
understanding of gravity and countless other things.

> In particular, how does one measure absolute unaccelerated motion?

All measured abstract relative velocities depend on the absolute
motion of the particles. The relative makes no sense without the
absolute. Saying that the relative exists but the absolute does not is
like saying that left exists without right or up without down. It's
stupid.

>Irrelevant experiment deleted]

Louis Savain

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In article <12960-38...@storefull-112.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
dani...@webtv.net (Daniel Weston) wrote:
>
> To Louis Savain:
>
> I come from another profession completely
> and I am not a card carrying member of any branch of science.

Good for you. I can't stand those know-it-alls. Their insufferable
pomposity is revolting to my sensibilities.

> I therefore ask these following questions with an unsullied spirit and
> unossified mind.
>
> 1) Would you please give us a definition of absolute motion.

Absolute motion is a change in absolute position.

> 2) Would you please give us your best example of absolute motion.

Everything that moves is in absolute motion. If you observe
something to move, either it is moving absolutely, or you are moving
absolutely or both are moving absolutely. You can only measure the
vector difference of the absolute motions within the system. Of course
your measurements can always be skewed by factors other than the actual
absolute motions involved.

> 3) Would you please give us a brief description of how absolute motion
> is evidenced.

See above. Also see my other arguments regarding the illogical
nature of exclusive relativity. Once you accept that then you are
forced to accept that relative motion is abstract and non-existent. If
you can't accept my original refutation then we are wasting each
other's time.

BTW, when you observe an object motion, what you are really doing is
detecting photons on your retina. These are the only physical things
you observe. You are not observing an actual physical motion of the
object in question. It took photons to be reflected by the object to
travel a certain distance before impinging upon your retina. You
interpret the changes as relative motion. But all the processes
involved are absolute.

Louis Savain

-Relative motion is extrinsic and abstract to particles.

Cyberia

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"Louis Savain" <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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<assorted snippage for brevity>

>You just touched upon another aspect of nature that
> the con establisnment has succeeded in obfuscating to death, the need
> for every effect to have a cause.

Uh oh, don't get religious on me. :-> Next you'll be telling me about the
uncaused first cause.

> The establishment con artists have
> been preaching for I don't know how long that things stay in motion for
> absoluely no reason at all, like voodoo or something.

Weren't you just extolling the virtues of Mr. Newton in another post -


"Newton tried his best to explain the necessity of the absolute to others
but it went over the heads of modern physicists who thought they knew
better."

Yet now you totally reject his "first law of motion" - An object at rest
tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with
the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced
force."

...and how many "modern physicists" were tutored by Mr. Newton anyway ?
Perhaps their extreme youth at the time was reason enough for his ideas to
have "gone over their head" ? No, wait, they can't exactly be "modern" now,
can they ? They're all dead too. :-) :-)

> Of course
> nothing could be more at odds with logic.

Of course. You're right, Newton was another establishment idiot. Why did you
invoke him ? :-)

> If absolute motion exists,

okay, it's your party...

> (and there is not a single doubt in my mind that it's the only type of
> motion that exists) then a change in position is an effect in need of a
> cause.

Would not the cause of "absolute motion" (a change in one's "absolute
position"), simply be "absolute velocity" ?

> What causes things to move?

In your example, my response would be "absolute force", but now you have
four proposed principles of "the absolute frame" for which to seek
supporting evidence, not just one. :-)

--
---------------
SeeYa !
--------------
Hello....... Is this thing on ?


Louis Savain

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In article <lrgE4.2401$na7.1...@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"Kevin Terrill" <k.m.t...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Louis,
> I'm sorry I missed all the fun earlier today, well yesterday. What
> would you measure your absolute velocity and position to. Where is
> 0,0,0,0. Where is the center of all motion and the beginning of time.
> Please advise, there are a few newsgroups here that are dying for
> that info. But let me ask you these simple questions, what is a
> meter?. Why is it as long as it is? What is a second? Why? What do
> you measure your absolute velocity against.


You are asking entirely wrong questions no doubt because you were
trained by the same idiots who taught me. What you should ask is
this: what does a particle measure? what motion does it have access
to? What position does it have access to? Does it have access to its
motion or position relative to another particle or some observer a
million miles away or some non-existent frame of reference?
If you can answer these questions, you are halfway there. Your
understanding will have taken a giant leap forward. You will no longer
have your head stuck so deep up your ass you have forgotten what fresh
air smells like. Like some of the pathetic morons who posted on this
thread.

> What is your reference? What are you measuring relative to? See
> the problem when looked at in the purest logical sense, says that it
> must be relative, even if there is a 0,0,0,0. All motion would be
> relative to that, 0,0,0,0. All motion is relative, one could pick any
> object as 0,0,0,0, and all objects would be moving relative to that.
> Even if you had a zero frame of reference, all motion would be
> relative to that. Any body in motion has to be moving relative to
> something, otherwise it isn't moving.

If you truly understood the absolute you would know that it has
nothing to do with frames of reference. The absolute is intrinsic to
particles and independent of the extrinsic. If a particle moves
absolutely, its intrinsic position just changes by an absolute discrete
amount. I fail to see what that has to do with an extrinsic frames of
human creation. Frames are for observers, not for particles. Are you
trying to understand nature or are you trying to understand observers?

Louis Savain

James Hunter

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Louis Savain wrote:


Since nature is artificial, we are mostly all trying to understand the
relationship
between nature, observers and goobermath, and most of all:
why does "nature" seem to love vacuums.


Charles Francis

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In article <8bri4r$7ka$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, thus spake Louis Savain
<louis_...@my-deja.com>

>I did not abandon anything and I staunchly defend my ideas. I
>haven't seen a single refutation yet against my argument that absolute
>motion is the only motion that exists.


This is because you have yet to produce such an argument, or even to
define what absolute motion is.
--
Regards

Charles Francis

cha...@clef.demon.co.uk


Charles Francis

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In article <8bsb31$2b4$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, thus spake Louis Savain
<louis_...@my-deja.com>

> Absolute motion is a change in absolute position.

and what is absolute position?

C.J. Luke

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"Kevin Terrill" <k.m.t...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>Louis,
> I'm sorry I missed all the fun earlier today, well yesterday. What would
>you measure your absolute velocity and position to. Where is 0,0,0,0.
>Where is the center of all motion and the beginning of time. Please advise,
>there are a few newsgroups here that are dying for that info. But let me
>ask you these simple questions, what is a meter?. Why is it as long as it
>is? What is a second? Why? What do you measure your absolute velocity

>against. What is your reference? What are you measuring relative to? See


>the problem when looked at in the purest logical sense, says that it must be
>relative, even if there is a 0,0,0,0. All motion would be relative to that,
>0,0,0,0. All motion is relative, one could pick any object as 0,0,0,0, and
>all objects would be moving relative to that. Even if you had a zero frame
>of reference, all motion would be relative to that. Any body in motion has
>to be moving relative to something, otherwise it isn't moving.

Kevin,
You should ask yourself some of these same questions. Once upon a
time...'straight' was defined as the shortest distance between two
points...distance was a 'physical' measure (we actually had a 'meter
stick' that was our physical standard...time was considered to be the
'same' for all and we understood that our clocks were imperfect.

Now...the meter is no longer a 'physical' measure...it is instead a
result of the calculation of how 'far a object would travel in a
"fraction of a second" if it were traveling at the "defined constant"
called the "speed of light". Oh yes...that clock has to be the 'local
clock' which is never in sync with any other clock that is seperated
from it and that old 'straight line' isn't necessarily 'straight any
more.

Actually, SR is brilliant. It offers us a set of measurment
procedures and definitions that allows us to make 'relative measures
and comparisons' and agree on the results without ever knowing the
reason why. Much like the way 'new math' was taught. This is an
acceptable approach for engineers (I do respect engineers) but an
engineer needs only a formula a constant or two and some physical
measures to determine how 'big' an Ibeam needs to be to carry a given
load for a given span. He does not need to understand what holds that
IBeam together at the 'atomic/sub-atomic' level. Physicist should.

If you read what Louis is actually saying, you will learn that he does
NOT call SR and GR crackpotery, he calls the 'denial' of the absolute
crackpottery. Many beleive that if you can't measure 'it' then 'it'
isn't important. That just isn't so. There are 'PHYSICAL CAUSES' in
our physical universe and it is the RESPONSIBILITY of PHYSICS to
UNDERSTAND the nature of these physical causes. We are now plagued
with a group of MATHMATICIANS that are pretending to be PHYSICISTS.
They are quite content in being able to work their math, arrive at
'answers' and discuss the 'causal nature' in terms of Minkowski Space
Time and World Lines and Time Like and Space Like and such.....


"The lack of reason is overcome by the passion of belief"
< c...@totcon.com >

G=EMC^2 Glazier

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James Hunter

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"C.J. Luke" wrote:

Since you apparently know nothing about engineering, why
are you publishing these goober helpful hints?

Charles Francis

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In article <22730-38...@storefull-162.iap.bryant.webtv.net>, thus
spake G=EMC^2 Glazier <herbert...@webtv.net>
>GR and Sr work 100% in the macro level.In the micro level both are
>showing they have their problems. Herb
>
>
I know, but this is because they start from the premise that motion is
relative, whereas they should start from the premise that position is
relative. Once one recognises that position is only defined relative to
a co-ordinate system, and co-ordinate systems are only defined relative
to matter, one starts to realise the circularity in the manner in which
we describe space and time, and that this circularity is the root of the
uncertainty principle. Then the same underlying principles are
responsible for the way in which things seem, both on the macro and on
the micro level

IndoMondo

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In article <8bsb31$2b4$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain
<louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:

>You can only measure the
>vector difference of the absolute motions within the system.

Sounds relative to me.

Sean


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:
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: Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII
: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

Please turn off the MIME, Herb.

: GR and Sr work 100% in the macro level.In the micro level both are


: showing they have their problems. Herb

Too many short responses, Herb, if you make a statement
please explain it or give a source or reference, please.

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: Content-Disposition: Inline
: Content-Type: Text/HTML; Charset=US-ASCII
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:
: <html>

Please turn off the HTML, Herb, Usenet is a text
based forum.

: <imgsrc="http./www.geocities.com/yosemite/trails/7447/
: lgpkrose.gif'height=116width=242<html>
: --WebTV-Mail-27276-635--

If you want to post a URL you do not need HTML,
just the complete URL will be clickable by most newsreaders.
With MIME and HTML, it requires a reader to use extra
keystrokes, and the article takes more than double the number
of bytes, costing many people extra money for nothing in return.

Regards,

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In article <8bs97b$gc$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain
<louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:

>From
>that moment on nothing will stand in their way and we will finally have
>an explanation for gravity, an explanation that can only come by
>accepting the absolute.

I thought we had an explanation for gravity: massive objects warping
spacetime. No?

IndoMondo

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In article <8bs97b$gc$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain
<louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:

>I personally do not need to measure absolute motion.

>Who cares what anyone can or cannot measure?

I don't know enough about "exclusive relativity" to respond
intelligently to your arguments but, to an outsider, so far, not only
are they unconvincing but it looks like your reasoning is circular:
Things are the way they are because that's how I say they are.

I can't speak for anyone else but, for me, you need to back your
argument up with something more than opinions.

You need to produce something that allows the rest of us to make
accurate predictions about how the universe behaves. Apart from just
saying so, you've yet to produce anything that DEMONSTRATES realative
motion is anything but the best working hypothesis we have.

Again, I don't know enough about it but, so far, you ain't convinving
me. You've said that physicists recoil from your argument but I suspect
they're probably just recoiling from your aggression and abuse.

Yes, I know I can stick it up my ass. I'd be glad to if you'll do the
same with that big chip on your shoulder.

Or you could just get down to demonstrating instead of lecturing....

Joe Fischer

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Louis Savain (louis_...@my-deja.com) wrote:

: "Robert J. Kolker" <bobk...@usa.net> wrote:
: > Louis Savain wrote:
: > > Physicists believe and teach others to believe that there are no
: > > such thing as absolute motion and position and that all motion is
: > > relative.
: >
: > Let it be granted that there is such a thing as absolute motion.
:
: The existence of absolute motion is not something that needs to
: be "granted" for argument's sake.

It either needs to be granted (agreed on by participants
in a discussion), or defined in a presentation, until such time
as the concept can stand on it's own merit.

: There is absolutely no doubt
: whatsoever that it's the only type of motion that can physically
: exist.

Are you saying "moving is moving"? Does a stupid
statement like "At rest if not moving" accompany your vague
statements? At rest relative to what?

: > Can


: > you suggest a way of measuring it so it can be used for something?
: > A quantity which cannot be measured in principle, might just as well
: > not exist?

:
: I personally do not need to measure absolute motion. Particles do


: however, because they have no other option.

Why, how many statements can you make without any
supporting information?

: It is about time that physicists realize


: that the universe does not revolve around the observer.

This may be true in some cases, but not all. Special
relativity helps the observer to take his observations and
calculate Newtonian energy problems with rational results
that will be agreed on by all observers.
It is easy to use thought experiments without an
observer, but applied physics is done by observation and
experiment. Don't try to lump everything into simplistic
thought experiments.

: We must use


: thought experiments and put ourselves in the place of a particle in
: motion and ask ourselves the following questions: How does the
: particle move and how does it maintain its position if it has no access
: to its motion relative to anything else?

It sure doesn't need to communicate, and it doesn't
need any medium or external "forces" acting. If you are
selling such nonsense, take it to a soapbox in the park.

: The answer is that the only properties that a particle has access to


: are its own intrinsic properties. By virtue of being intrinsic, these
: properties are also absolute.

Nonsense, mass is intrinsic and invariant, yet kinetic
energy is frame dependent, if you don't understand this, ask
questions until you get a satisfactory answer.

: What we measure are extrinsic quantities


: that are ultimately dependent on absolute properties. That is the
: reason why measurements are consistent: they have a unifying absolute
: underpinning.

With no connection other than kinematics until contact
interactions occur. Kinetic energy is meaningless when the
two objects are moving away from each other.

: > So is absolute motion in principle unmeasurable or is the the case


: > that no one has figured out how to do it?

:
: Who cares what anyone can or cannot measure?

Every working physicist, chemist, geologist, and all
workers in any of the physical sciences.

: You think particles in


: nature gives a hoot about observers and their measurements? All I need
: in order to understand nature is to understand what nature cares
: about. I want to understand physics from nature's point of view, not

: from an observer's point of view [snip].

Then understand it and write a monograph, disrupting
discussions of relative motion is not helpful to anyone.

: We have deductive powers that we can use to extrapolate new knowledge
: from our observations. There is no point in sitting there like a damn


: stupid fool whining about what we cannot measure. It is about time we
: change our approach to physics from an observer-centric approach to a
: particle-centric approach. The observer-centric approach is just
: stupid. All it can do is give us a few predictive capabilities but it
: cannot give us causal explanations. Once we remove our relative
: blinders we will be able to see a world of awesome possibilities that
: were heretofore fordidden.

Have you seen this world? :-)

: Now I don't expect this to happen from within the physics community.
:[snip]

It seems obvious you expect it to come from a spirit
medium. It is unfortunate that the few good things you say
are lost in your gutter language.

: All measured abstract relative velocities depend on the absolute


: motion of the particles. The relative makes no sense without the
: absolute. Saying that the relative exists but the absolute does not is
: like saying that left exists without right or up without down. It's
: stupid.

: Louis Savain

Write a book, and enlighten the world. :-)

Jim Carr

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In article <8brllh$bf3$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>
Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> writes:
}
} In article <8brg7h$mmv$1...@news.fsu.edu>,
} j...@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) wrote:
} >
} > ... note appropriate followups ...
}
} You can kiss my ass with your followups Carr.

I am sorry if good sense offends you.

}This discussion is
}relevant to all aspects of physics because it deals with something
}fundamental.

Your comments dealt with no physics at all. You even admitted
it was just a troll of the s.p.research moderators. QED.

}I'm fed up with your chicken shit attempts at censorship.

I'm fed up with noise pollution from inappropriate cross-posts
from people who think "you can kiss my ass" is a sound piece
of mathematical physics.

You need to learn what "censorship" means and read the advice
to new users on Usenet.

}If you don't like what's being said here, use your kill
}file. Don't try to bottle it within sci.physics.relativty.

My kill file is specific to particular newsgroups.

<... snip off-topic discussion with no physics content ...>

--
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http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~jac/ | where to find knowledge" - Anon.
Supercomputer Computations Res. Inst. | Motto over the entrance to Dodd
Florida State, Tallahassee FL 32306 | Hall, former library at FSCW.

Louis Savain

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In article <rvnj9hAs...@clef.demon.co.uk>,
Charles Francis <cha...@clef.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <8bri4r$7ka$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, thus spake Louis Savain
> <louis_...@my-deja.com>

> >I did not abandon anything and I staunchly defend my ideas. I


> >haven't seen a single refutation yet against my argument that
> >absolute motion is the only motion that exists.
>
> This is because you have yet to produce such an argument, or even to
> define what absolute motion is.

It was in the first post that started the thread. Here it is agin:

1. "One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits


a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself."

Now all you have to do is refute it or shut up.

2. Another argument that I gave in this thread goes something like
this. No particle in nature has access to its motion/position relative
to anything else in the universe unless it's psychic. So how does it
maintain its position or motion?

2. Still another one. A force needs to change something in order to
accelerate a body. Which of the infinite number of relative motions
does it change and how does it "know" about them in order to change
them?

3. All properties are intrinsic to particles. By virtue of being
intrinsic, that makes them absolute. Whether or not we can measure
them is besides the point.

As I said in another post, all that I've seen so far from you yahoos
is "see how big my dick is". Refute my arguments or fuck off. And
please spare me with the half-witted self-delusory crap about not being
able to measure absolute motion, etc., etc...

Louis Savain

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In article <20000329095318...@ng-fa1.aol.com>,
dwhi...@aol.com (Dwhig265) wrote:

> Louis Savain wrote:
> > If you truly understood the absolute you would know that it has
> >nothing to do with frames of reference. The absolute is intrinsic to
> >particles and independent of the extrinsic. If a particle moves
> >absolutely, its intrinsic position just changes by an absolute
> discrete amount.

> If you can explain the above so someone else can understand it, you
> may have yourself something.

It means that all properties in nature are intrinsic to particles
because particles are all there is. An intrinsic property is by force
absolute. Why? because the definition of the absolute is that which
is not dependent on (relative to) anything. An intrinsic property is
one of those things. The relative is not intrinsic but extrinsic to
particles. Particles could not give a rat's ass about the relative.
If nature has no use for the relative and could not possibly use it,
then a true understanding of nature can only come from acknowledging
the absolute.

Louis Savain

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In article <sean-171FD4.0...@news.compuserve.com>,

IndoMondo <se...@indomondospambasher.com> wrote:
> In article <8bs97b$gc$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain
> <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >From
> >that moment on nothing will stand in their way and we will finally
> >have an explanation for gravity, an explanation that can only come by
> >accepting the absolute.
>
> I thought we had an explanation for gravity: massive objects warping
> spacetime. No?

That's what the con establishment would have you believe and they
never stop anyone from asserting what you just said even though it's a
lie. Spacetime is a ficitious abstract construct invented by
mathematicians. Here's a little known fact: nothing can move in
spacetime.

Louis Savain

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In article <8bt78h$bv9$1...@news.fsu.edu>,

j...@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) wrote:
> In article <8brllh$bf3$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>
> Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> writes:
> }
> } In article <8brg7h$mmv$1...@news.fsu.edu>,
> } j...@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) wrote:
> } >
> } > ... note appropriate followups ...
> }
> } You can kiss my ass with your followups Carr.
>
> I am sorry if good sense offends you.

Fuck off Carr!

Louis Savain

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In article <sean-A2E03C.0...@news.compuserve.com>,
IndoMondo <se...@indomondospambasher.com> wrote:

> Yes, I know I can stick it up my ass.

Exactly.

Louis Savain

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In article <sean-54C835.0...@news.compuserve.com>,
IndoMondo <se...@indomondospambasher.com> wrote:
> In article <8bsb31$2b4$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain

> <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >You can only measure the
> >vector difference of the absolute motions within the system.
>
> Sounds relative to me.

And I said otherwise?

Louis Savain

-Where do these pathetic monkeys come from?

Gregory L. Hansen

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In article <nPfE4.8999$Og6.2...@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
Paul Lutus <nos...@nosite.com> wrote:
>[ with regard to an ether ... ]
>
>> Again, some do. Some say it doesn't exist. Some think it does, and
>> articles about aether theories are regularly published in journals like
>> _Foundations of Physics_. There are lots of physicists that collectively
>> hold lots of different opinions. And that, of course, is a good thing.
>
>Well, of course I agree, but the point is, no matter how people come down in
>opinions on the subject, it cannot be detected. Therefore theories about an
>ether cannot be falsified. Therefore they are not, strictly speaking,
>scientific. Like the nature of gravitons, they are speculations at the
>fringe of physics. Interesting, worthwhile, but not a direct subject of
>study.

There are some contenders to general relativity, and I think some of them
are aether theories. But where their predictions differ, experiment has
not yet gone. And experiment has eliminated others of the competition.

--
"We aim to please. So you aim, too, please."


Paul Lutus

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> It means that all properties in nature are intrinsic to particles
> because particles are all there is.

False premise, false conclusion. Saying "particles are all there is" leaves
out most properties of nature.

The remainder of your argument, like those that preceded it, is circular,
unscientific, metaphysical, and untestable.

> a true understanding of nature can only come from acknowledging
> the absolute.

This is not physics. It is religion.

--

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com


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Gregory L. Hansen

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In article <8brq0h$g42$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <8brmfk$b52$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,
>glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
>> In article <8br9qm$u50$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>> Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>[...]
>Hansen I remember you from way back when and I can't say that I was
>impressed with your grasp of things. Before I respond to your

Yeah, I tried not to get involved again. Talking with you can be a chore.
But oh, well.

>incoherent drivel let me first say that I gave a logical argument
>against exclusive relativity in my original post. I claim that this
>argument is unassailable and yet none of you have come up with a
>counter argument. Here it is again:


>
>"One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits
>a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative to
>everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to itself."

I'm not even sure this argument says anything. Help me understand it.
What do you mean by "self-referential"? Is that the same as something
being relative to itself? And if so, isn't your conclusion stated as a
premise? By "relative", I assume you mean measured positions and
velocities.

And I think your argument is incomplete. You've gotten up to "Thus
everything is ultimately relative to itself." What's wrong with that?
The velocity of a particle with respect to itself is zero. Zero is a
perfectly good velocity.

Really, it looks to me that your argument can be reduced to "Exclusive
relativity says that everything is self-referential. Therefore everything
is self-referential."

And I can't disagree with that! The only thing I'd argue about is that
there's anything to argue about.

What next?

Gregory L. Hansen

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In article <8bt951$3mf$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <rvnj9hAs...@clef.demon.co.uk>,
>Charles Francis <cha...@clef.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>2. Another argument that I gave in this thread goes something like

Hey, you didn't give me these ones! I feel left out.

>this. No particle in nature has access to its motion/position relative
>to anything else in the universe unless it's psychic. So how does it
>maintain its position or motion?

Looks like you're assuming a particle must maintain its position and
motion with respect to something. But that seems to have an absolute
frame built into the assumptions, which makes that a non-argument.

What would happen if the particle didn't maintain its motion? Would it
drift to a stop? Drift to a stop relative to what? To some absolute
reference frame, I would assume. What would happen if the particle did
nothing to maintain its position? Would it roll down to the center of an
absolute reference frame?

All the particle needs to do is maintain zero velocity with respect to
itself, and stay zero distance away from itself. And that's easy. In
fact, in the absence of external forces, Noether's theorem says it's
inevitable.

>2. Still another one. A force needs to change something in order to
>accelerate a body. Which of the infinite number of relative motions
>does it change and how does it "know" about them in order to change
>them?

A particle runs into a field of force, and accelerates. The source of the
force doesn't have to know anything about it.

>3. All properties are intrinsic to particles. By virtue of being
>intrinsic, that makes them absolute. Whether or not we can measure
>them is besides the point.

Some properties are intrinsic to particles. Other properties are not.
The distance from one particle to another depends on the relationship
between those two particles. *Even with an absolute reference frame*, the
distance from one particle to another particle depends on the positions of
both particles. And even with an absolute reference frame, the velocity
of one particle with respect to another depends on the respective motions
of both particles. And, of course, we can only measure relative motions.
Like the speed of your car with respect to the ground, which your
speedometer measures.

Whether or not we can measure something is, in fact, the point. If we
can't measure it, there's just no reason to introduce it in physical
theories. If we can't measure it, there's no way to test it, and no way
to know if you're right. Theories in physics are relationships between
measurements.

When you start talking about something that cannot be measured and has no
influence on the mathematical form of theories, you're talking about
metaphysics, not physics.

> As I said in another post, all that I've seen so far from you yahoos
>is "see how big my dick is". Refute my arguments or fuck off. And
>please spare me with the half-witted self-delusory crap about not being
>able to measure absolute motion, etc., etc...

I think you misunderstand the nature and scope of physics. There are lots
of books that can help.

Louis Savain

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In article <8btak0$i70$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,

glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:

>[...]


> Really, it looks to me that your argument can be reduced to "Exclusive
> relativity says that everything is self-referential. Therefore
> everything is self-referential."
>
> And I can't disagree with that! The only thing I'd argue about is that
> there's anything to argue about.

I was right about you the first time. You are so fucking dense you
make uranium look like hydrogen. Anybody who is comfortable with self
reference have got be a trained moron. Now go kiss some chicken shit
establishment ass!

Louis Savain

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In article <8btbhr$ib1$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,

glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
> In article <8bt951$3mf$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >In article <rvnj9hAs...@clef.demon.co.uk>,
> >Charles Francis <cha...@clef.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >2. Another argument that I gave in this thread goes something like
>
> Hey, you didn't give me these ones! I feel left out.

Fuck off Hansen. I can't deal with morons right now.

Jim Carr

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... snip bogus and off-topic newsgroups ...


In article <8bru8h$2f9$1...@bob.news.rcn.net>,
"Cyberia" <cyb...@gscyclone.com> wrote:
}
} Why does "knowledge" of one's velocity consitute a requirement for
} "maintaining" that velocity in the absence of any force ?

In article <8bs4kl$rgt$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>
Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> writes:
>
> Good question.

I was hoping to see an answer.

>You just touched upon another aspect of nature that
>the con establisnment has succeeded in obfuscating to death, the need
>for every effect to have a cause.

Here you are asserting the need to have a cause for no effect, however.

>The establishment con artists have
>been preaching for I don't know how long that things stay in motion for
>absoluely no reason at all, like voodoo or something.

This would be since Newton established that as one of his postulates
upon which classical mechanics is based.

>Of course
>nothing could be more at odds with logic.

The derivation of results from postulates is in accord with logic.
You seem to mean "Savain's personal opinion and intuition" when
writing "logic" since you use the same approach with a different
choice of postulate when you write

>If absolute motion exists,

as that start of a syllogism

>then a change in position is an effect in need of a cause.

that you then fail to prove. One alternative would be that
"If absolute motion exists, then a change in motion is an effect
in need of a cause" or "If absolute motion exists, then absolute
rest exists and can be identified experimentally".

Louis Savain

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In article <8btdo1$e4c$1...@news.fsu.edu>,
j...@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) wrote:

>[sophistry deleted]

Didn't I tell you to fuck off Carr?

Gregory L. Hansen

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In article <8btfae$as2$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <8btak0$i70$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,

>glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
>
>>[...]
>> Really, it looks to me that your argument can be reduced to "Exclusive
>> relativity says that everything is self-referential. Therefore
>> everything is self-referential."
>>
>> And I can't disagree with that! The only thing I'd argue about is that
>> there's anything to argue about.
>
> I was right about you the first time. You are so fucking dense you
>make uranium look like hydrogen. Anybody who is comfortable with self
>reference have got be a trained moron. Now go kiss some chicken shit
>establishment ass!

Well, I guess you've handily refuted my response and all the rest of my
dumb arguments in one fell swoop.

Good luck on your crusade.

IndoMondo

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In article <8bt9mc$4a9$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain
<louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:

>That's what the con establishment would have you believe

Why would they have me believe this?

>Here's a little known fact: nothing can move in spacetime.

Reading your posts makes my bowels move. I'd love to see a demonstration
of this so called fact that wasn't abstract or based in specious logic.

Louis Savain. Rings a bell, that name.

Louis Savain

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In article <8btgid$j0p$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,

glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
> In article <8btfae$as2$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

> Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >In article <8btak0$i70$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,
> >glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
> >
> >>[...]
> >> Really, it looks to me that your argument can be reduced
> >> to "Exclusive relativity says that everything is self-referential.
> >> Therefore everything is self-referential."
> >>
> >> And I can't disagree with that! The only thing I'd argue about is
> >> that there's anything to argue about.
> >
> > I was right about you the first time. You are so fucking dense you
> >make uranium look like hydrogen. Anybody who is comfortable with self
> >reference have got be a trained moron. Now go kiss some chicken shit
> >establishment ass!
>
> Well, I guess you've handily refuted my response and all the rest of
> my dumb arguments in one fell swoop.

You got it.

> Good luck on your crusade.

You know what you can do with your hypocritical blessing, don't you?

Louis Savain

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In article <sean-0604DE.1...@news.compuserve.com>,
IndoMondo <se...@indomondospambasher.com> wrote:
> In article <8bt9mc$4a9$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain

> <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >That's what the con establishment would have you believe
>
> Why would they have me believe this?
>
> >Here's a little known fact: nothing can move in spacetime.
>
> Reading your posts makes my bowels move.

I guess it's time to change your diapers.

> I'd love to see a demonstration
> of this so called fact that wasn't abstract or based in specious
> logic.

If you're too dense to figure it out on your own, don't expect me to
explain it to you.

> Louis Savain. Rings a bell, that name.

And what is that supposed to mean? You've got some special knwledge
about my person that I'm not privy to?

> IndoMondo: Astronomy for the rest of us http://www.indomondo.com/

For the rest of the morons?

Louis Savain

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In article <20000329131823...@ng-cj1.aol.com>,
regn...@aol.com (Regnirps) wrote:
> Louis Savain louis_...@my-deja.com

> >dwhi...@aol.com (Dwhig265) wrote:
> >> Louis Savain wrote:
> >> > If you truly understood the absolute you would know that it has
> >> >nothing to do with frames of reference. The absolute is intrinsic
to
> >> >particles and independent of the extrinsic. If a particle moves
> >> >absolutely, its intrinsic position just changes by an absolute
> >> discrete amount.
> >
> >> If you can explain the above so someone else can understand it, you
> >> may have yourself something.
> >
> > It means that all properties in nature are intrinsic to particles
> >because particles are all there is. An intrinsic property is by force
> >absolute. Why? because the definition of the absolute is that which
> >is not dependent on (relative to) anything. An intrinsic property is
> >one of those things. The relative is not intrinsic but extrinsic to
> >particles. Particles could not give a rat's ass about the relative.
> >If nature has no use for the relative and could not possibly use it,
> >then a true understanding of nature can only come from acknowledging
> >the absolute.
>
> Pretty bold claims but I don't see any reason to believe them.

Like I gave a rat's ass what you believe.

>[...]

IndoMondo

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In article <8btfe6$b4j$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Louis Savain
<louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:

>Fuck off Hansen. I can't deal with morons right now.

Better get rid of any mirrors you have lying around.

If you actually had anything to say you'd just say it, develop your
point, help the world come to grips with your genius. Instead, you seem
to be a textbook example of someone who deals with his own problems by
claiming everyone else has them. No wonder self-reference is a thorn in
your loins.

Sean


--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Louis Savain

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In article <20000329133934...@ng-cj1.aol.com>,
regn...@aol.com (Regnirps) wrote:
> Louis Savain louis_...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> >1. "One of the problems with exclusive relativity is that it posits

> >a hopelessly self-referential universe where everything is relative
> >to everything else. Thus everything is ultimately relative to
> >itself."
>
> >Now all you have to do is refute it or shut up.
>
> Thats easy. You left a great big hole and filled it with the
> word "Thus". Unfortunately, "Thus" is not sufficient to brige the gap
> between "everything is relative to everything else" (meaning for a
> single thing, every thing BUT itself), and the conclusion "everything

> is ultimately relative to itself".

Let me ask you something Springer. Are you an establishment
physicist? You sure sound like it. This sort of dumb response usually
comes from a trained physicist not from a thinking person. It's so
stupid it does not deserve a rebuttal.

Greg Neill

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Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8brm9s$c3t$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <svcE4.17988$Xk2....@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>,
> "Greg Neill" <gne...@netcom.ca> wrote:
>
> > So, what you're saying is, you are wasting both your time and ours.
>
> If you think your time is being wasted put me in your kill file and
> fuck off. See if I give a shit.
>
> Louis Savain

Ah yes, personal attack; the last, desperate resort of the unskilled.

I would put you into my kill file immediately, but right now the
lambasting that you're receiving by all and sundry amuses me. Thanks
for being amusing.

Aubrey

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Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8bt9eo$41s$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <20000329095318...@ng-fa1.aol.com>,
> dwhi...@aol.com (Dwhig265) wrote:
> It means that all properties in nature are intrinsic to particles
> because particles are all there is. An intrinsic property is by force
> absolute. Why? because the definition of the absolute is that which
> is not dependent on (relative to) anything. An intrinsic property is
> one of those things. The relative is not intrinsic but extrinsic to
> particles. Particles could not give a rat's ass about the relative.
> If nature has no use for the relative and could not possibly use it,
> then a true understanding of nature can only come from acknowledging
> the absolute.

As I'm sure you know, these days, the speed of light is considered absolute.
It will always be measured at the same velocity regardless of the velocity
of the observer. This agrees with what you just said. Doesn't it? Or am I
missing something?

As for objects that travel at more mundane speeds, there's simply no way to
discuss the velocity of an object without expressing it as relative to the
velocity some other obect. I don't see how velocity can be thought of as
'absolute' for slow-moving obects. Unlike photons, the measured velocity of
these objects *does* depend on the velocity of the observer. So the only
way to express velocity is as a relative velocity to some other object, or a
reference frame.

Acceleration, on the other hand, can be thought of as absolute, which I've
always found extremely interesting, and may tie into this discussion
somehow.

-A

Uncle Al

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Louis Savain wrote:
>
> In article <8btak0$i70$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,
> glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
>
> >[...]
> > Really, it looks to me that your argument can be reduced to "Exclusive
> > relativity says that everything is self-referential. Therefore
> > everything is self-referential."
> >
> > And I can't disagree with that! The only thing I'd argue about is that
> > there's anything to argue about.
>
> I was right about you the first time. You are so fucking dense you
> make uranium look like hydrogen. Anybody who is comfortable with self
> reference have got be a trained moron. Now go kiss some chicken shit
> establishment ass!
>

> Louis Savain

You curse like a girl and do physics like a Kansan.

"Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression" for the
first. Suicide for second.

--
Uncle Al
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Greg Neill

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IndoMondo <se...@indomondospambasher.com> wrote in message
news:sean-0604DE.1...@news.compuserve.com...

> Louis Savain. Rings a bell, that name.
>

Indeed. It is an anagram for "Anus via oils".


Louis Savain

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In article <#XizhMbm$GA.269@cpmsnbbsa04>,

"Aubrey" <aub...@no.hijackers.please> wrote:
>
> Louis Savain <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:8bt9eo$41s$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > In article <20000329095318...@ng-fa1.aol.com>,
> > dwhi...@aol.com (Dwhig265) wrote:
> > It means that all properties in nature are intrinsic to particles
> > because particles are all there is. An intrinsic property is by
force
> > absolute. Why? because the definition of the absolute is that which
> > is not dependent on (relative to) anything. An intrinsic property is
> > one of those things. The relative is not intrinsic but extrinsic to
> > particles. Particles could not give a rat's ass about the relative.
> > If nature has no use for the relative and could not possibly use it,
> > then a true understanding of nature can only come from acknowledging
> > the absolute.
>
> As I'm sure you know, these days, the speed of light is considered
absolute.
> It will always be measured at the same velocity regardless of the
velocity
> of the observer. This agrees with what you just said. Doesn't it? Or
am I
> missing something?

It has very little to do with what I wrote. Although the constancy
of the measured speed of light is evidence of an underlying absolute.

> As for objects that travel at more mundane speeds, there's simply no
way to
> discuss the velocity of an object without expressing it as relative
to the
> velocity some other obect. I don't see how velocity can be thought of
as
> 'absolute' for slow-moving obects. Unlike photons, the measured
velocity of
> these objects *does* depend on the velocity of the observer. So the
only
> way to express velocity is as a relative velocity to some other
object, or a
> reference frame.

All measured velocities are relative to the observer's frame. Big
deal! My claim is that we'll never truly understand nature by assuming
that ALL velocities are relative because nature does not use relative
velocities. No particle has access to any info about what its position
of motion is relative to anything else in the universe. Yet things
move. So "what does the particle have access to?" is the proper
question to ask if one really wants to understand the behavior of the
particle.

If you are a fundamental relativist with your head in the sand,
you'll throw your hands up in the air and mumble that you can only
measure relative motion and since you cannot measure absolute motion it
does not exist and is of no import. And that would be fine with me as
you can simmer in your ignorance for all I care. Nature could not care
less what some chicken shit fundamental relativist can or cannot
measure.

> Acceleration, on the other hand, can be thought of as absolute, which
> I've always found extremely interesting, and may tie into this
> discussion somehow.

It does but not the way you think. Acceleration is a change in
velocity. Some physical, non-abstract velocity has to change. Which
of the infinite number of relative velocities does the accelerating
force change? How does it access this information? Is it through some
sort of psychic voodoo a la exclusive relativity?

Acceleration is caused by local particle interactions. It has
nothing to do with the position of the accelerating particle relative
to extrinsic particles or frames of reference. Yet this is what the
exclusive relativists are claiming by denying the absolute.

Louis Savain

-Down with chicken shit voodoo physics!

Uncle Al

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Louis Savain wrote:
>
> In article <20000329133934...@ng-cj1.aol.com>,
> regn...@aol.com (Regnirps) wrote:
> > Louis Savain louis_...@my-deja.com wrote:

[snip]

> Let me ask you something Springer. Are you an establishment
> physicist? You sure sound like it. This sort of dumb response usually
> comes from a trained physicist not from a thinking person. It's so
> stupid it does not deserve a rebuttal.
>
> Louis Savain

I don't think we are getting through to you, Savain. Try this on for
size to resolve any residual ambiguity:

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As
they say in Texas, you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with
instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away.
I would rather suck off a lawyer than be seen with you.

You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little
worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a
cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench,
a revulsion, a big suck on a rotted sour lemon.

You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared
richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your nalleged birth
into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody,
abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then
killed themselves in recognition of what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same
species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at
the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut.
Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are
a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell
bad?

Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting
to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a
nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able
to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive
its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to
fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink
shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing
nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid,
nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an
ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with
you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in
a land that reality forgot.

And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important
statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What
fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted
tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat,
spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and
obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living
emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a
disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.

On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are
deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of
wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You
are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow
wherever you go.

You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock.
You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted
boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You
gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole
ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead
cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb.
You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are
degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you
exist. I despise everything about you. . You are a bloody nardless
newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a
coprophagic cloacal parasitic pond scum, and I wish you would go away.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard
stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way
beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid.
You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself
so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense
that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day
sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our
entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a
troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this
is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some
pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be
beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on.
This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear
from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride
your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant
trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.

The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped
away most of your of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really
say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was
pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a
load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after
you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more
success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal"
people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering.
But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this
world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this
was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't
have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish
you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem
to be placing such a demand on you...

You're also boring, Louie.

Randy Poe

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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:56:46 GMT, Louis Savain
<louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>No particle in motion could possibly "know" what its motion is relative
>ot anything else in the universe unless it's psychic. If relative
>motion is all there is and the particle has no access to the infinite
>number of possible relative velocities out there, how does the particle
>maintain its velocity?

You're missing the point. It's that any [intertial] frame can be
designated as the "absolute" frame. For instance, you could designate
your house as the absolute rest frame of the universe (the fact that
you are on earth will require you to make some small corrections due
to rotations), and measure all particle velocities relative to that.
There's no preferred rest frame.

When you are in an airplane, moving at hundreds of km/hr relative to
the ground, you can stand up and walk down the aisle at what you feel
is a leisurely pace. Nobody is requiring you to also know your
velocity relative to me, or the earth, or the sun. All you care about
is your velocity relative to the floor of the plane.

And if you have a mosquito riding on you, all he cares about is that
his velocity relative to you is 0. The velocity relative to other
things can be defined, but nothing requires that you know them in
order to move.

In your philosophy, do I need to know my velocity relative to this
hypothetical absolute frame before I stand up and use the airplane
rest room? Why?

Forget relativity. You seem to be against the very idea that I can
describe "motion relative to the plane" and "motion relative to the
earth". That there even is such a thing as "relative to the plane."
That's not Einstein, it's Newton.
- Randy


Rob Viesca

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Uncle Al wrote:

> [huge amount of criticism snipped]
>
> --
> Uncle Al

I'm, sorry bit I just have to say it:

The fact that you would put so much time, creativity, and effort into
insulting someone that much is just plain wrong.

-Rob

--
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"With Infinite time comes Infinite chances. With Infinite chances comes
Infinite numbers. Since Infinity has no number it is uncertain. Therefore
Infinite time disproves all certainty."


Louis Savain

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In article <38E25A04...@hate.spam.net>,

Uncle Al <Uncl...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
>
>
> Louis Savain wrote:
> >
> > In article <8btak0$i70$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,
> > glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
> >
> > >[...]
> > > Really, it looks to me that your argument can be reduced
> > > to "Exclusive relativity says that everything is self-
> > > referential. Therefore everything is self-referential."
> > >
> > > And I can't disagree with that! The only thing I'd argue about is
> > > that there's anything to argue about.
> >
> > I was right about you the first time. You are so fucking dense you
> > make uranium look like hydrogen. Anybody who is comfortable with
> > self reference have got be a trained moron. Now go kiss some
> > chicken shit establishment ass!
> >
> > Louis Savain
>
> You curse like a girl and do physics like a Kansan.

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Is that better?

Louis Savain

Louis Savain

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In article <38e25bd8...@news.newsguy.com>,

ran...@visionplace.com (Randy Poe) wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:56:46 GMT, Louis Savain
> <louis_...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >No particle in motion could possibly "know" what its motion is
> >relative to anything else in the universe unless it's psychic. If

> >relative motion is all there is and the particle has no access to
> >the infinite number of possible relative velocities out there, how
> >does the particle maintain its velocity?
>
> You're missing the point. It's that any [intertial] frame can be
> designated as the "absolute" frame. For instance, you could designate
> your house as the absolute rest frame of the universe (the fact that
> you are on earth will require you to make some small corrections due
> to rotations), and measure all particle velocities relative to that.
> There's no preferred rest frame.

Why is it that so many of those who have been trained by the con
establishment cannot grasp that the absolute has nothing to with
reference frames, including a so-called absolute frame? What is it
that is so hard about the absolute that they consistently fail to grasp
something so simple? Has the brainwashing been this effective? This
is appalling.

Louis Savain

-Absolute means not relative to anything.

Louis Savain

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In article <38E26281...@hate.spam.net>,
Uncle Al <Uncl...@hate.spam.net> wrote:

Fuck you too Uncle Al, you ass-kissing mental midget! :-D

Louis Savain

-Are we having fun or what!

Chris1

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In article <38E266A3...@idt.net>, mur...@idt.net wrote:
>
>
>Uncle Al wrote:
>
>> [huge amount of criticism snipped]
>>
>> --
>> Uncle Al
>
>I'm, sorry bit I just have to say it:
>
>The fact that you would put so much time, creativity, and effort into
>insulting someone that much is just plain wrong.

I disagree. Bravo, Uncle Al !


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