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Climate change could cause mass exodus by mid century
On Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 3:00:36 PM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
On Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 6:11:57 PM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote: What claim? NG appears to be a perfect theory. It can be derived from GR as the limiting case for a non-accelerated frame and zero velocity. But actual moving bodies do not have zero velocity, and acceleration is a real phenomenon - and Newtonian mechanics purports to describe the behavior of accelerated bodies. A theory which produces results that cease to be correct after ten or twenty decimal places is not *perfect*, however good and useful and practical it might be. The binomial theorem is perfect in the ordinary sense of the word "perfect" - utterly and absolutely free of every flaw and imperfection, however tiny. ....on the other hand, if someone tried to come to me and tell me that Newtonian mechanics was somehow "wrong" I would dismiss him out of hand. It may have limitations, but relativity is generally viewed with good reason as supplementing it, not overthrowing it. So it is indeed solid and well-founded, in no danger of being overthrown in its domain of applicability. I just wouldn't use the word "perfect" for that, as that is not the word for what you mean - what "perfect" actually does mean will lead to you being misunderstood. John Savard |
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Climate change could cause mass exodus by mid century
On Sun, 8 May 2016 14:00:33 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
wrote: On Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 6:11:57 PM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote: What claim? NG appears to be a perfect theory. It can be derived from GR as the limiting case for a non-accelerated frame and zero velocity. But actual moving bodies do not have zero velocity, and acceleration is a real phenomenon - and Newtonian mechanics purports to describe the behavior of accelerated bodies. No, but a limiting case can still be a perfect representation of reality. |
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On Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 11:28:24 PM UTC+1, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2016 14:00:33 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc wrote: On Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 6:11:57 PM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote: What claim? NG appears to be a perfect theory. It can be derived from GR as the limiting case for a non-accelerated frame and zero velocity. But actual moving bodies do not have zero velocity, and acceleration is a real phenomenon - and Newtonian mechanics purports to describe the behavior of accelerated bodies. No, but a limiting case can still be a perfect representation of reality. The whole empirical scheme is brought front and center today as the rare event of a planetary transit also represents a planet at the center of its retrograde motion. It doesn't really matter if there is nobody around to comprehend what Newton did or tried to do, only that this was how he engineered, if in the worst possible sense, the attempt to reduce astronomy to modeling at a human scale. The retrogrades of an outer planet generated a loop to the eyes of the original geocentric astronomers - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031216.html The original heliocentric astronomers rightly accounted for the periodic spirals as a consequence of a moving Earth and by extension the Sun at the center of the solar system. Kepler rendered the Earth's faster orbital circuit with the slower Mars - "Copernicus, by attributing a single annual motion to the earth, entirely rids the planets of these extremely intricate coils, leading the individual planets into their respective orbits ,quite bare and very nearly circular. In the period of time shown in the diagram, Mars traverses one and the same orbit as many times as the 'garlands' you see looped towards the centre,with one extra, making nine times, while at the same time the Earth repeats its circle sixteen times " Kepler https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...retrograde.jpg The justification for the scientific method in attempting to reduce planetary dynamics to experimental sciences was the need to reduce astronomical insights and methods to an experimental footing and it was done with the double modeling of retrogrades. Newton's belief is that retrogrades are geocentric and by placing the Sun at the center of the diagram that retrogrades disappear - "For to the earth planetary motions appear sometimes direct, sometimes stationary, nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from the sun they are always seen direct,..." Newton There was no theory of gravity ,at least in any meaningful way, there was however a terrible injustice visited on humanity and particularly its relationship to astronomy when experimental theorists building on Newton created a junkyard out of the celestial arena and it still continues unabated to this day. |
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On Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 10:22:37 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2016 08:39:59 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel wrote: No, I didn't know, because you referenced a claim I'd "backtracked" on, and there wasn't one. Of COURSE there was. You backtracked on your claim that NG is a perfect theory by claiming it had limitations. You seem to change definitions every time you blather. Careful there, you're starting to sound as foolish as Snell. I'm not the one using the word "perfect" imperfectly :-) A clarification is not backtracking. You did not understand the basis of my claim, so I explained in more detail. If you choose to treat that as a change of position, you're as useless as Snell in any reasonable discussion. (If I didn't know that you live down the mountain from me, while Snell lives in Snellville, I'd think you were his sock puppet.) Careful there, yourself. You are trying to justify use of "perfect" wrongly. Listen to Savard. He has it almost right. What he has wrong is that GR is an extension of NG. GR is a completely different way of looking at gravity (one which I believe will turn out to be "wrong" because the concept of "bending" spacetime, although useful, does not describe a fundamental feature of gravity). The concept of the graviton at first appears to be closer to NG, but it's not really. Gary |
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On Mon, 9 May 2016 05:01:42 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel
wrote: What he has wrong is that GR is an extension of NG. Semantics. We could say that GR extended NG. We could say that NG is a subset of GR. There are lots of ways of connecting the two. |
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On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 7:21:13 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Mon, 9 May 2016 05:01:42 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel wrote: What he has wrong is that GR is an extension of NG. Semantics. We could say that GR extended NG. We could say that NG is a subset of GR. There are lots of ways of connecting the two. Only in a chronological sense. |
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On Mon, 9 May 2016 06:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel
wrote: On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 7:21:13 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2016 05:01:42 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel wrote: What he has wrong is that GR is an extension of NG. Semantics. We could say that GR extended NG. We could say that NG is a subset of GR. There are lots of ways of connecting the two. Only in a chronological sense. I disagree. |
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On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 8:38:34 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Mon, 9 May 2016 06:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel wrote: On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 7:21:13 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2016 05:01:42 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel wrote: What he has wrong is that GR is an extension of NG. Semantics. We could say that GR extended NG. We could say that NG is a subset of GR. There are lots of ways of connecting the two. Only in a chronological sense. I disagree. Nobody cares what you do with your brain. |
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On Mon, 9 May 2016 16:51:11 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel
wrote: On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 8:38:34 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2016 06:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel wrote: On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 7:21:13 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2016 05:01:42 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel wrote: What he has wrong is that GR is an extension of NG. Semantics. We could say that GR extended NG. We could say that NG is a subset of GR. There are lots of ways of connecting the two. Only in a chronological sense. I disagree. Nobody cares what you do with your brain. That sounds like Snell again, more interested in empty insults than engaged discussion. |
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On Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 12:22:37 PM UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2016 08:39:59 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel wrote: No, I didn't know, because you referenced a claim I'd "backtracked" on, and there wasn't one. Of COURSE there was. You backtracked on your claim that NG is a perfect theory by claiming it had limitations. You seem to change definitions every time you blather. Careful there, you're starting to sound as foolish as Snell. A clarification is not backtracking. You did not understand the basis of my claim, so I explained in more detail. If you choose to treat that as a change of position, you're as useless as Snell in any reasonable discussion. peterson, I agree that you "backtracked" on your claim. You do it all of the time, whether you realize it or not. |
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