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From: clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen)
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Subject: Re: How do Universities Sell Prestigious =?UTF-8?B?QmF1Ymxlcz8=?=
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:11:03 +0000
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:
>>>
>>>> LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
>>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
>>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
>>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
>>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
>>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
>>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and
>>>>> thoughtlessly
>>>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
>>>>> slavish, and avoidable.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
>>>> monopoly'.
>>>>
>>>> (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)
>>>>
>>>> You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The cabal decides what they want you to think.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who
>>> couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept
>>> curved space for a second.
>> Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood
>> that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it
>> stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and
>> forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel
>> lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the
>> doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person
>> would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as
>> a foolish fellow.
>
> Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will
> never intersect.
You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio
principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's not a
surface and its not curved.