[betty boop]

p.s.: To my last -- If you're going to pan the Overman and McTaggert books, RWP, don't you think you ought at least to have the dignity to read them first?

I read a wonderful book for you, that is by your suggestion/recommendation: Max Born's Relections of a Nobel Laureat. Maybe you could read the Overman and McTaggert in return, and then share your thoughts with me?

In Born's Relections, his son Gustav gets in the last word. In the Epilogue, he cites from his father's Nobel Lecture:

"I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science. On the other hand, any assertion of probability is either right or wrong from the standpoint of the theory on which it is based. This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world."

[tpaine]

"-- the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world", --- Max Born cited with absolute certitude and absolute exactness, as a final truth, in his Nobel Lecture.


Yep. Some days it just don't hardly pay ta get up. Right boopsie?

[Right Wing Professor]

To my last -- If you're going to pan the Overman and McTaggert books, RWP, don't you think you ought at least to have the dignity to read them first?

I can't read all the nonsense in the world, BB, just to confirm for myself it's nonsense. I read excerpts from both; they were sufficient to convince me to go no further.