tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post3231373302086474316..comments2024-03-29T11:52:34.305-04:00Comments on the daily howler: BEHIND THE CURTAIN: The alleged philosopher's flimflam and quest!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90862840657025626492021-07-26T09:52:48.699-04:002021-07-26T09:52:48.699-04:00DR EMU WHO HELP PEOPLE IN ANY TYPE OF LOTTERY NUMB...DR EMU WHO HELP PEOPLE IN ANY TYPE OF LOTTERY NUMBERS <br />It is a very hard situation when playing the lottery and never won, or keep winning low fund not up to 100 bucks, i have been a victim of such a tough life, the biggest fund i have ever won was 100 bucks, and i have been playing lottery for almost 12 years now, things suddenly change the moment i came across a secret online, a testimony of a spell caster called dr emu, who help people in any type of lottery numbers, i was not easily convinced, but i decided to give try, now i am a proud lottery winner with the help of dr emu, i won $1,000.0000.00 and i am making this known to every one out there who have been trying all day to win the lottery, believe me this is the only way to win the lottery.<br /><br />Contact him on email Emutemple@gmail.com<br />What's app +2347012841542<br />Website Https://emutemple.wordpress.com/<br />Https://web.facebook.com/Emu-Temple-104891335203341Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15412911890439251035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58209901817679482332017-04-27T11:24:30.033-04:002017-04-27T11:24:30.033-04:00Reading this post I was sorta reminded of "Co...Reading this post I was sorta reminded of "Confessions of an economic hitman" which struck me as a series of "And then I had a two hour private conversation with National President X and we predicted the future."Dr. Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62005820350478777022017-04-27T11:05:26.478-04:002017-04-27T11:05:26.478-04:00Very funny, Mr. Somerby. This is why I read you e...Very funny, Mr. Somerby. This is why I read you every day, you spot the phony better than anyone I know. mmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82505912198411133122017-04-27T09:51:37.825-04:002017-04-27T09:51:37.825-04:00Therefore,as Bob Said, "He also doesn't t...Therefore,as Bob Said, "He also doesn't think that we the humans have anything like the ability to answer the kinds of questions Holt pretends to explore in his flimflam-laden book."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-16351854239536387642017-04-27T09:51:05.130-04:002017-04-27T09:51:05.130-04:00Somerby finally got around to correcting the date....Somerby finally got around to correcting the date. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45106994698790347002017-04-27T09:41:43.998-04:002017-04-27T09:41:43.998-04:00Methinks that it is more than editing that you req...Methinks that it is more than editing that you require.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21253801700858523172017-04-27T07:00:32.031-04:002017-04-27T07:00:32.031-04:00Poor Bob! http://theweek.com/speedreads/688894/rac...Poor Bob! http://theweek.com/speedreads/688894/rachel-maddow-show-dominating-cable-newsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66278933857568247192017-04-27T02:03:14.111-04:002017-04-27T02:03:14.111-04:00Let me turn over all the cards. As to whether the ...Let me turn over all the cards. As to whether the author of "The 100: a ranking of the 100 most influential people in history," the non-professional historian Michael H. Hart, would have a full appreciation of the merits of the Newton's work, I would think so. He is an astrophysicist with a PhD from Princeton.<br /><br />Whether the author of such a book might have put a thumb on the scales on behalf of Einstein's genius because Hart is Jewish or whether Hart's list inflates the importance of the roles played by members of Western Civilization, specifically, over the course of human history because of his prejudices are questions which I would think should not concern us, ordinarily. Such work should stand on its own. However, given the givens, we might keep these questions in mind <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_H._Hart" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a>. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21368348930832943522017-04-27T00:59:09.158-04:002017-04-27T00:59:09.158-04:00impCaesarAvg,
All that is true, and yet Newton ha...<i>impCaesarAvg,<br /><br />All that is true, and yet Newton had access to a lot of data; the circumference of the earth, the distance to the moon, the force of gravity at sea level.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath658/kmath658.htm" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><br />[QUOTE] ...The idea that the planets were attracted to the sun by such an “inverse-square” force law had by [1684] occurred to several people, including the architect Christopher Wren, the scientist Robert Hooke, and to Newton himself, following the publication by Huygens of [his equation] for the “centrifugal (outward) force” of a particle of mass m moving in a circular path of radius r with angular speed w. This is equivalent to Kepler’s third law...<br /><br />Wren, Hooke, and Halley had discussed the problem at a coffee house following a meeting of the Royal Society in January of 1684, and Wren had offered a cash prize to whoever could provide a derivation of the shape of planetary orbits under the assumption of an inverse-square central force of attraction toward the (presumed stationary) sun. Hooke had claimed to have a proof that the paths were ellipses, but never provided it.<br /><br />Against this background, Halley paid a visit to Newton, who later told Abraham De Moivre about the fateful meeting. According to De Moivre<br /><br /><i>>>>In 1684 Dr Halley came to visit him at Cambridge. After they had been some time together, the Dr asked him what he thought the curve would be that would be described by the planets supposing the force of attraction towards the sun to be reciprocal to the square of their distance from it. Sir Isaac replied immediately that it would be an ellipse.<br /><br />The Doctor, struck with joy and amazement, asked him how he knew it. Why, saith he, I have calculated it. Whereupon Dr Halley asked him for his calculation without any farther delay. Sir Isaac looked among his papers but could not find it, but he promised him to renew it and then to send it him…</i><<<<br /> <br />As is well known, Halley’s question prompted Newton to formulate his ideas about mechanics and universal gravitation. The answer to Halley grew and became progressively more comprehensive until, in a remarkably short time (about 18 months), Newton had composed the three-volume work entitled The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, usually called by the Latin title “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”, or simply “Principia”, comprising the foundation of modern physics. [END QUOTE]<br /><br /><i>Not to diminish this or any of the other intellectual feats accomplished by Newton, Einstein's work was of a much more theoretical nature, the very question for which Einstein was pursing an answer was largely one he, himself, had originally posed.</i> CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-46527184670890503072017-04-26T23:47:21.797-04:002017-04-26T23:47:21.797-04:00Infinite Einsteins couldn't and won't answ...Infinite Einsteins couldn't and won't answer the question. The question will not be answered by human beings. Anyone who would assert that five Einsteins might get closer to these answers should be dismissed as having nothing important to say.<br /><br />The Big Bang, discovered by a priest, didn't get us any closer to understanding first causes. Logic brings us closer to intelligent forces than random, but nothing asserted by any member of our or any other fully natural species that should come into existence will ever be provable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82752384085634698872017-04-26T22:05:49.004-04:002017-04-26T22:05:49.004-04:00Newton's ideas may seem obvious to us today, b...Newton's ideas may seem obvious to us today, but they weren't obvious in his day. If you push a ball, it rolls a while, then stops. It does not keep going in a straight line forever, as supposed by Sir Isaac.<br /><br />Things fall to the ground because they're heavy, and God only knows why the planets move as they do. Newton would have us believe there's a force that pulls everything toward everything else, and he makes no hypothesis about the nature and cause of this mysterious force. He gives a mathematical rule: the force between two bodies is proportional to their masses and the square of the distance between them, but he doesn't explain any underlying mechanism. It's just a neat formula he pulled out of his back pocket.<br /><br />The tides come in and go out because that's God's intelligent design of the sea. Newton says the moon pulls the water harder where it's closer, less hard where it's farther, so the ocean has two bulges: toward the moon on the near side, away from it on the far side. Well, when I'm at sea, I don't feel any pull from the moon.<br /><br />No, Newton's ideas seem obvious just because we're used to them. If you think about them, they're vary strange.impCaesarAvghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384806750440039982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-57513910348854147712017-04-26T21:03:49.540-04:002017-04-26T21:03:49.540-04:00At 7:19 PM asks:
If no one really understands Ein...<i>At 7:19 PM asks:</i><br /><br />If no one really understands Einstein's theory and it only operates under conditions that cannot be reproduced and tested, how do we even know he was correct?<br /><br /><i>The assumptions here are wrong, lots of people understand Einstein's theory and it has predicted all sorts of experimental outcomes precisely. Hart wrote his book in 1978, since then Einstein's work has has become ever more important to the non-theoretical, i.e. technological developments. For instance consider <a href="http://www.livescience.com/58245-theory-of-relativity-in-real-life.html" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a>:</i><br /><br />[QUOTE] <b>Global Positioning System</b><br /><br />In order for your car's GPS navigation to function as accurately as it does, satellites have to take relativistic effects into account. This is because even though satellites aren't moving at anything close to the speed of light, they are still going pretty fast. The satellites are also sending signals to ground stations on Earth. These stations (and the GPS unit in your car) are all experiencing higher accelerations due to gravity than the satellites in orbit.<br /><br />To get that pinpoint accuracy, the satellites use clocks that are accurate to a few billionths of a second (nanoseconds). Since each satellite is 12,600 miles (20,300 kilometers) above Earth and moves at about 6,000 miles per hour (10,000 km/h), there's a relativistic time dilation that tacks on about 4 microseconds each day. Add in the effects of gravity and the figure goes up to about 7 microseconds. That's 7,000 nanoseconds.<br /><br />The difference is very real: if no relativistic effects were accounted for, a GPS unit that tells you it's a half mile (0.8 km) to the next gas station would be 5 miles (8 km) off after only one day. [END QUOTE]<br /><br /><i>Wikipedia says</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a>:<br /><br />[QUOTE] The GPS project was launched in the United States in 1973 to overcome the limitations of previous navigation systems, integrating ideas from several predecessors, including a number of classified engineering design studies from the 1960s. The U.S. Department of Defense developed the system, which originally used 24 satellites. <br /><br />It became fully operational in 1995. Roger L. Easton of the Naval Research Laboratory, Ivan A. Getting of The Aerospace Corporation, and Bradford Parkinson of the Applied Physics Laboratory are credited with inventing it. [END QUOTE] CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81259568329094345172017-04-26T19:19:35.650-04:002017-04-26T19:19:35.650-04:00It is kind of offensive that the name Einstein is ...It is kind of offensive that the name Einstein is used to stand for "genius" when there are any number of people who have made similarly outstanding contributions in fields other than physics. I think there have been and will be a lot of people smarter than Einstein, harder working, more important to our world. Physicists are people who have chosen to work on some of the easier questions in life. <br /><br />If no one really understands Einstein's theory and it only operates under conditions that cannot be reproduced and tested, how do we even know he was correct? We take other physicists word for it. But isn't Somerby suggesting that the people who certify the worth of other experts' work are capable of lying, especially when they themselves are befuddled and don't want to admit it. Einstein could be a charlatan too, for all we know. Do you give accolades for untestable knowledge?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31814753297200543442017-04-26T19:10:11.654-04:002017-04-26T19:10:11.654-04:00If we all sign a petition can we get Somerby to sk...If we all sign a petition can we get Somerby to skip any further discussion of this book?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-11595295983217356682017-04-26T19:07:52.785-04:002017-04-26T19:07:52.785-04:00I think Newton's work is also the creation of ...I think Newton's work is also the creation of a single genius because he originated his revision in contrast to Aristotle and the Greeks and because he was first to test his ideas using experiments (which enabled him to reject Greek ideas) and because he had to develop the mathematics himself -- he developed calculus for example, because he needed it. It is too easy to use hindsight to decide that Newton's work was obvious or collaborative when it was not. Newton rebuilt scientific understanding of the physical world from scratch using empirical methods, entirely rejecting previous knowledge. It was correct because it was empirical.<br /><br />I think Einstein had a better publicist. Already, he is not as well known to younger people as Stephen Hawking, for example. It is hard to know how much of his standing is because he was alive when the list was made.<br /><br />We are back to the hedgehog versus fox argument because Einstein's contribution was narrow but deep while Newton's was broad and transformed an entire field of knowledge, establishing modern physics on an empirical basis. Apples and oranges.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90553010034381496802017-04-26T18:16:40.825-04:002017-04-26T18:16:40.825-04:00Bob Somerby writes:
[QUOTE] Charlatan, please! Ei...<i>Bob Somerby writes:</i><br /><br />[QUOTE] Charlatan, please! Einstein (1879-1955) is popularly considered the greatest physicist since Newton. Newton was born in 1643. <b>In short, an Einstein, in the sense Amis meant, comes along every 236 years.</b> [END QUOTE]<br /><br /><i>I wouldn't be too sure of that number, but not because of the twentieth century's population explosion. In 1978 the non-professional historian Michael H. Hart wrote his <i>THE 100 a ranking of the most influential persons in history</i>. Isaac Newton ranked second on his list, Albert Einstein tenth. However, Hart makes the point that Einstein may have processed a rarer type of genius than Newton.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://archive.org/stream/The100MichaelHart/The%20100%20-Michael%20Hart_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><br />[QUOTE] In evaluating Einstein’s importance, a comparison with Isaac Newton is revealing. Newton’s theories were basically easy to understand, and his genius lay in being the first to develop them. Einstein’s theories of relativity, on the other hand, are extremely difficult to understand, even when they are carefully explained. How much more difficult, therefore, to devise them originally!<br /><br />While some of Newton’s ideas were in strong contradiction to the prevailing scientific ideas of his time, his theory never appeared to lack self-consistency. The theory of relativity, on the other hand, abounds with paradoxes. It was part of Einstein’s genius that at the beginning, when his ideas were still the untested hypothesis of an unknown teenager, he did not let these apparent contradictions cause him to discard his theories.<br /><br />Rather, he carefully thought them through until he could show that these contradictions were apparent only, and that in each case there was a subtle but correct way of resolving the paradox. <br /><br />Today, we think of Einstein’s theory as being basically more “correct” than Newton’s. Why, then, is Einstein lower on this list? Primarily because it was Newton’s theories that laid the groundwork for modern science and technology. Most of modern technology would be the same today had only Newton’s work been done, and not Einstein’s. <br /><br />There is another factor which affects Einstein’s place on this list. In most cases, many men have contributed to the development of an important idea, as was obviously the case in the history of socialism, or in the development of the theory of electricity and magnetism.<br /><br />Though Einstein does not deserve 100 percent of the credit for the invention of the theory of relativity, he certainly deserves most of it. It seems fair to say that, to a larger degree than is the case for any other ideas of comparable importance, the theories of relativity are primarily the creation of a single, outstanding genius. [END QUOTE] CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29778338348852837852017-04-26T15:02:46.302-04:002017-04-26T15:02:46.302-04:00Right, like Baron Munchhausen he's pulling him...Right, like Baron Munchhausen he's pulling himself up by his own hair. Maybe Holt does not presume his own existence and he's trying to establish it by writing this book. Ilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09520998225031485048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91521518088621297472017-04-26T14:37:27.135-04:002017-04-26T14:37:27.135-04:00Holt presumes his own existence. Isn't that ki...Holt presumes his own existence. Isn't that kind of circular when questioning the existence of everything else?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-74034285157924984562017-04-26T14:34:13.531-04:002017-04-26T14:34:13.531-04:00This book wasn't on the required reading list ...This book wasn't on the required reading list that Dear Leader passed out in January, so I think I will skip it. If you don't like a book on page 3, there is no reason to continue reading it, even if you paid $14.95 for it.<br /><br />Is Somerby contesting the validity of asking such questions, does he think philosophy is stupid and shouldn't ask them? Is he quibbling about the number of Einsteins needed (or existing) or the order in which they need to be "discovered"? Or is he urging us all to go back to being theists? He never really states his objections to things, but the aggrieved tone comes through pretty clearly.<br /><br />Holt has as much right to make a dollar using his pen and publishing connections as anyone else, including Sheryl Sandberg with her advice on how to nurture resilience (she pretends to have answers to such questions, just as difficult as the ones Holt poses). <br /><br />Somerby doesn't like it when Holt says he cannot aspire to be Einstein because that is humble-bragging because he put the equation into our heads. On that basis, every man who says "I'm not a woman and cannot pretend to understand their experience" is also humble-bragging about his deep understanding of women's lives, and every person who says "I don't pretend to know why people voted for Trump" is actually bragging about being in tune with the miscreants who cast their votes to elect a monster. Why would anyone brag about that, humble or otherwise? If I could answer that, I might understand Trump voters myself, and then I could go on and answer the larger questions about why anything exists to be written about by fools like Holt and Somerby.<br /><br />Editing needed today -- maybe he had a bad night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15500238506518360702017-04-26T14:33:24.716-04:002017-04-26T14:33:24.716-04:00The very fundamental problem with Holt's book ...The very fundamental problem with Holt's book is that when one tries to explain <i>everything</i>, one explains nothing. Questions can only be answered by limiting their scope. In <i>The Blind Watchmaker</i> (or maybe <i>The Selfish Gene</i>), Richard Dawkins outlines the context of his discussion. He does not attempt to explain evolution from the cosmology standpoint; he presumes certain laws of physics and chemistry and the ability of self-replication. It's from that platform that he proceeds with his arguments. Ilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09520998225031485048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12281912944607163292017-04-26T14:25:46.475-04:002017-04-26T14:25:46.475-04:00Hmmm...if nothing exists, no one can hear you howl...Hmmm...if nothing exists, no one can hear you howl. Ilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09520998225031485048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-38927001100636202802017-04-26T13:54:30.281-04:002017-04-26T13:54:30.281-04:00Wrong. There will always be Dr. Unity.Wrong. There will always be Dr. Unity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5173136333988060382017-04-26T13:17:30.865-04:002017-04-26T13:17:30.865-04:00If nothing existed, there would be no Daily Howler...If nothing existed, there would be no Daily Howler.impCaesarAvghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384806750440039982noreply@blogger.com