XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math
From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl
Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 4/18/25 3:45 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > Come on, thePrincipia is in the first place a self-erected pedestal,
> > created for posing on top of it as an absolute genius
> > by being as difficult and as obscure as possible.
> > The same things can be said if much simpler ways.
> >
> > Jan
>
>
> ?.. Do you heavily drink while in usenet?
>
> I refuse to comment.
Surrender noted and accepted,
Jan
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