Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jim Pennino Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Energy is for bunny-ahs (traders) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:34:19 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <9gee1l-kkkj.ln1@gonzo.specsol.net> References: <730c4a156bd268ae1f9342119eb1ff2e@www.novabbs.com> <5c265c0d6012a26abb9caa981e60323a@www.novabbs.com> Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:46:11 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c7784d8988913682ec5cc8136455f308"; logging-data="2962395"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/NGMDwNC6/1NhWtcW06SQw" User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20220130 ("Convalmore") (Linux/5.15.0-126-lowlatency (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:omeNI+LijLJouig5xeENyytt+58= Bytes: 1998 Bertietaylor wrote: > On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:53:26 +0000, David Canzi wrote: > >> On 11/24/24 04:14, Bertietaylor wrote: >>> Physics texts should avoid the word "energy" as much as possible. >>> >>> It is an unscientific term as it is so volatile and relative. >>> >>> Besides the so called law of conservation of energy is nonsense as shown >>> by the phenomenon of radioactivity. Explaining that with e=mcc is even >>> more nonsense. >>> >>> High time the world quitted bad physics and followed Arindam's physics >>> that updates Newton and rejects Einstein. >> >> If you reject conservation of energy and conservation of momentum >> you are shredding Newton, not updating him. > > Nonsense. Newton had nothing to do with such a ridiculous notion as law > of conservation of energy. That came from the German scientists like > Helmholtz. Actually the notion originated before Newton was born, crackpot.