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   From: jda@not.here   
      
   On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:53:16 -0000 (UTC)   
   Dhu on Gate wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:19:13 -0700, jjdinar wrote:   
   >    
   > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:50:15 -0000 (UTC)   
   > > Dhu on Gate wrote:   
   > >    
   > >> On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:27:07 -0600, phoenix wrote:   
   > >>    
   > >> > Dhu on Gate wrote:    
   > >> >>    
   > >> >> Weeell, sort of:   
   > >> >> https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-12-06/Chinese-physicists   
   settle-Einstein-and-Bohr-s-quantum-debate-1ISzncCBeBq/p.html   
   > >> >>    
   > >> >> "The results are unequivocal," the research indicates. "They   
   > >> >> confirm Bohr's original assertion that these dual properties are   
   > >> >> complementary and cannot be observed concurrently."   
   > >> >>    
   > >> >> Beauty, and much else it would seem, *truly is* in the Eye of   
   > >> >> the Beholder.   
   > >> >>    
   > >> >> Dhu   
   > >> >>    
   > >> >    
   > >> > Einstein was known for some outrageous and false quotes, such as   
   > >> > "Are you working with Xencor's antibody engineering or the XEN   
   > >> > Gel Stent?"    
   > >>    
   > >> Yes. Famously his answer to Bohr that "G* does not play dice"   
   > >> runs into a chronic problem that occurs whenever the ants start   
   > >> telling G* what to do.   
   > >>    
   > >> Dhu   
   > >>    
   > > He wrote the forerword to this book too:   
   > >    
   > > https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/eathsshiftingcru0335   
   2mbp/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp.pdf   
   > >    
   > > The very first communication, however,   
   > > that I received from Mr. Hapgood electrified me. His idea is   
   > > original, of great simplicity, and— if it continues to prove   
   > > itself—of great importance to everything that is related to the   
   > > history of the earth's surface. A great many empirical data   
   > > indicate that at each point on the earth's surface that has been   
   > > carefully studied, many cli- matic changes have taken place,   
   > > apparently quite suddenly. This, according to Hapgood, is   
   > > explicable if the virtually rigid outer crust of the earth   
   > > undergoes, from time to time, extensive displacement over the   
   > > viscous, plastic, possibly fluid inner layers. Such displacements   
   > > may take place as the consequence of comparatively slight forces   
   > > exerted on the crust, derived from the earth's momentum of   
   > > rotation, which in turn will tend to alter the axis of rotation of   
   > > the earth's crust.    
   >    
   > Yper. This is what I see there:   
   >    
   > PAGES MISSING   
   > WITHIN THE   
   > BOOK ONLY   
   > TIGHT BINDING BOOK   
   >    
   > Dhu   
      
   Not actual text pages however:   
      
   "We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only   
   theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we   
   believe in axioms. I asked Einstein in Berlin once how he, a trained,   
   drilled, teaching scientist of the worst sort, a mathematician,   
   physicist, astronomer, had been able to make his discoveries. 'How did   
   you ever do it/ I exclaimed, and he, understanding and smiling, gave   
   the answer: " 'By challenging an axiom I' " Lincoln Steffens,   
   Autobiography (p. 816)    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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