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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: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:05:31 +0000
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 0:39:40 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> On 1/24/2025 2:11 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If it was curved a bit, then I can see how two parallel lines might
> intersect at a point at infinity, so to speak, in a strange sense. It's
> strange to me. When I plot field individual lines in one of my
> experimental fields, they never intersect even though they twist and
> turn through the field...
Fields can curve while space cannot.