"Vilas Tamhane" wrote in message
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Seems to me that there are two classes of intelligence. There's the
religious class, those that accept the supernatural from childhood
and never challenge their own belief that they've thoroughly learnt,
and the inventive class, those that question everything and see nature
as a challenge. The supernaturalists go on to become priests, medical
doctors, politicians, artists, schoolteachers, etc. and the challengers
become engineers, scientists, airline pilots, soldiers etc. I'd be out of
my depth as a schoolteacher, Tom&Jeery here would be out of his/her
depth as an engineer. (It once claimed its big brother saved it from
date rape by teaching it martial arts, so we not too sure of its gender.
Having returned as yet another cartoon character, Yosemite Sam, we
see the leopard cannot change its spots even if it changes its name.)
Let's look at what it said.
"One's perspective view of the rod, that is, its PROJECTION in three-space,
varies according to one's motion."
A projection is like a shadow or a map, one dimension is lost as we produce
a shape in only two dimensions. The projection of a rod can be a rectangle,
a circle, a hexagon and its shadow changes based on the position of the sun.
But what's a projection in three-space if not the rod itself to itself? No
dimension has been lost so its not a projection. Why capitalise? Okay,
what it means is the projection onto the retina, but that varies according
to one's position, motion has nothing to do with it.
Then the idiot says you should not be an idiot when you point out that by
the PoR the Einstein length expansion of the rod is caused by the moving
observer who sees the rod coming toward him.
Of course you did set him up for it, but that's the fun you are having.