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To: RinaseaofDs

It will take some time to verify these results.
***The article is 7 years old. Scientists sure are taking their time.


84 posted on 02/21/2014 2:00:47 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

Einstein came up with relativity around 1902. It took a solar eclipse, and the lack of world war, to confirm that light would bend as a result of gravity. That was 1917.

15 years.

Tesla came up with stuff that they STILL can’t figure out to this day. He was a contemporary to Einstein.

Wave/Particle theory? Nobody has a clue - to this day. We know that photons behave like waves, unless of course you observe them, and then they behave like particles.

Quantum entanglement - fact. Why it happens? Nobody knows.

And then, the granddaddy of them all - lighting. Why does it happen? Nobody can say. It produces anti-matter (discovered by accident). Why does lightning produce antimatter? Nobody knows.

And the great granddaddy - the earth’s magnetic field. What causes it? No clue at all. The guess is lame too (movement of the magma at the earth’s core causes it, we think, but don’t quote us).

There was a prize offered for the first accurate timepiece that would operated at sea. That prize went unclaimed for many, many decades. The person that invented the chronometer never even got to collect the prize.

What, exactly, do you think science is?

This is the thing my wife loves about her calc students: as long as stuff works, why do I have to know WHY it works?

You can ask anybody with a 401K that got cut in half by the market. Most of the financial instruments, derivatives, MBS products, etc - all products of calculus.

Why do are power series important? Because the radius and interval of convergence AREN’T what matter - it’s whether the series converges AT THE BOUNDARIES!

The boundary conditions are why even government majors relying on computer models (hockey stick anyone?) needs to know the HOW and the LIMITS of computer models built with calculus.

So, either pick up a slide rule and engage in the scientific method yourself, or wait patiently until somebody chews your food for you.


101 posted on 02/22/2014 4:44:07 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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