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   Message 116,846 of 117,728   
   Alan to Andy Burnelli   
   Re: Empiricism trumps Arlen's idiocy (wa   
   17 May 22 13:36:59   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2022-05-16 10:41 a.m., Andy Burnelli wrote:   
   > AMuzi wrote:   
   >   
   >> Yes but beyond rotor temperature note the caliper and other components   
   >> are _not_ glowing hot.   
   >   
   > Hi AMuzi,   
   >   
   > First off, let me state what should be obvious, but what might not be:   
   > a. I am a well educated scientist & engineer which means I'm extremely   
   > familiar with "things" that "seem" to be one way, but which aren't.   
      
      
   A claim not supported by anything.   
      
   > b. I'm also well trained in how to formulate and defend an hypothesis,   
   > having been on a team who published peer-reviewed papers in the   
   > biological sciences (before I turned to engineering in San Jose).   
      
   Supra.   
      
   > c. I welcomed your argument, and that of Vic Smith, simply because   
   > both of you sincerely tried to find some way to explain the dilemma.   
   >   
   > The dilemma is that it's well known that to make cast iron melt would   
   > take temperatures which would _destroy_ the components in a brake caliper.   
      
   It's also well-known that you don't have to heat a metal to its melting   
   point for it to become plastic.   
      
   >   
   > Hence, anyone "claiming" that their rotors "warped", would also need to   
   > product the horribly damaged "softer" components of the braking system.   
      
   Heat has to be transmitted to those other components... ...and that   
   doesn't happen.   
      
   >   
   > And they _never_ do.   
   > Because it didn't happen.   
      
   It does happen.   
      
   You've been SHOWN examples.   
      
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