Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:36:13 +0000 Subject: Re: Strange relativistic silence Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity References: <66dca815$0$1285$426a74cc@news.free.fr> From: Ross Finlayson Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 12:36:25 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <66dca815$0$1285$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-zpdRNaB9Jt8LrJIlRQ/hYVi6dzF/j+wh4r6maWyiyL5mlrbDgy9Rawj0BYNUGKb4wPSVJYMDo7pXH6G!UMDPcrl15uMwhYKTfspR6W/4nQvlPFMWioD6lJPosQqaiBrrLMKknAnAmK9eqvYIXPc9TVBZkoYw X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 1843 On 09/07/2024 12:23 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote: > Richard Hachel wrote: > >> When I explained that the theory of relativity was very poorly understood, >> and therefore very poorly explained, I always encountered an extraordinary >> silence from my correspondents. >> It is the same silence that still persists today, mockery and insults not >> being answers in the scientific sense of things. > > Have you noticed the strange absence of geographers and astronomers > at flat-earther's conferences? > > Jan > Did you know that the Babylonians divided the firmament into three celestial ways?