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   Physfitfreak to Physfitfreak   
   =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_DeepSeek_helping_me_to_c   
   17 Apr 25 15:34:23   
   
   XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math   
   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/17/25 3:28 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:   
   > On 4/17/25 2:50 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:   
   >> On 4/17/25 4:11 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   >>> Physfitfreak  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 4/16/25 4:14 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   >>>>> Physfitfreak  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On 4/14/25 2:01 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   >>>>>>> rhertz  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Wien was already a Nobel Prize by 1905. He had a tremendous   
   >>>>>>>> respect and   
   >>>>>>>> influence from the European physics community (and also abroad).   
   >>>>>>>> Planck   
   >>>>>>>> didn't have this.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Why should we believe anything you write   
   >>>>>>> when you can't even get simple facts like this right?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Jan   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> What difference does it make what happened anyway. I don't understand   
   >>>>>> you guys in this relativity forum.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Some physics were developed and that's it. The important thing is the   
   >>>>>> physics not the history of physics. Doesn't matter who did what.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> And all these human names Priests have packed into it. Concepts as   
   >>>>>> well   
   >>>>>> as units and rules and even some formulas! All with human names on   
   >>>>>> them.   
   >>>>>> Are you people nuts?..   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Perhaps, but it is a very human trait.   
   >>>>> Things memorise more easily when there is a name attached to it.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> For example, even asteroids get names.   
   >>>>> Asteroid 1001 Gaussia for example may be easier on the brain   
   >>>>> than the provisional designation 1923 OA.   
   >>>>> Asteroid 'Gaussia' will even be understood if the number is forgotten,   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Jan   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> No it's not that innocent a mess. Priest-minded crappy scientists,   
   >>>> disguised as "scientists" have been forcing it to pack non-related   
   >>>> humanities stuff in it for their own tribal interests. And they've gone   
   >>>> too far. It's become disgusting in fact. Takes the attention of   
   >>>> students   
   >>>> away to stuff unrelated to physics.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Did Newton ever do that? Of course not.   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course he did.  It was Newton who started the tradition   
   >>> of nasty priority fights in physics and mathematics.   
   >>> He wanted all the world to know that it was Newton's calculus,   
   >>> and not Leinbiz's.   
   >>>   
   >>>> As far as I know he never named   
   >>>> names in his physics works. The closest that he came to point to a   
   >>>> "history" of it was his comment about "giants". He was too good a   
   >>>> physicist to name even those giants, cause it would be trash as far as   
   >>>> physics concepts were concerned.   
   >>>   
   >>> That was a snide comment in another priority dispute, with Hooke.   
   >>> (who was a small man)   
   >>> See Gleick's biography for more on it.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Physics history is a humanities field.   
   >>>   
   >>> All history is.   
   >>>   
   >>>> It has absolutely nothing to do with physics.   
   >>>   
   >>> Then why call it 'history of physics'?   
   >>>   
   >>> Jan   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Newton did all that "nasty priority fight" _outside_ his physics   
   >> books. Do I have to remind this to you? I told you to be careful when   
   >> Physfit's dick is near.   
   >>   
   >> I don't see any human names in his physics books. If you see, list   
   >> them and come back. He used sources as far back as Alhazen (Iranian   
   >> Ebne Heytham - optics works and much more) without once mentioning the   
   >> name. Physicist don't do trash talk when writing physics books.   
   >> Alhazen's own works too, all of them, are devoid of names. Only   
   >> physics concepts.   
   >>   
   >> I refuse to respond to your other careless remarks.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > Here, let me throw DeepSeek at you. This is what DeepSeek knows:   
   >   
   > Key Names in Opticks:   
   >   
   > (beginning of the quote):   
   >   
   >      Isaac Newton – The author refers to himself in the first person   
   > when describing experiments.   
   >   
   >      Robert Hooke – Newton briefly mentions Hooke’s work on   
   diffraction   
   > (though he avoids naming him directly in some contentious passages due   
   > to their rivalry).   
   >   
   >      Christiaan Huygens – Cited regarding wave-based theories of light   
   > (Newton disagreed with his ideas).   
   >   
   >      René Descartes – Critiqued for his theories on light and   
   refraction.   
   >   
   >      Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Not directly named in Opticks, but   
   > their later disputes over calculus influenced Newton’s later queries in   
   > the book.   
   >   
   >      John Locke – A friend of Newton; some ideas in Opticks align with   
   > Locke’s empiricism (though Locke isn’t named explicitly).   
   >   
   > (end of the quote).   
   >   
   > AS you see, even DeepSeek misunderstands Newton's motives. It thinks   
   > Newton's avoidance of mentioning names was because of "rivalry", while I   
   > am certain he was only being honest to himself and to the reader when he   
   > was writing physics. Too good a physicist to piss inside his physics   
   > books by throwing human names in it.   
   >   
   > And when DeepSeeks calls it "cited", it is not clear Newton actually   
   > used a name, or just the title of a book written by the human with that   
   > name.   
   >   
   > I don't know, check the above result by yourselves. I think it carries   
   > much of the sense I'm trying to put inside cro-magnon creatures or   
   > otherwise tribal people.   
   >   
   > And learn from it, if you can! Physfit's dick can educate you.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
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   A sort of footnote: DeepSeek says: "In the 1717 edition, Newton added   
   "Queries" (theoretical speculations), where he indirectly references   
   other thinkers, but still focuses on ideas rather than names."   
      
   How's that for an AI that's not cro-magnon?...   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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