Re: Why learn physics by yourself
I don't recall being rude to you
That's true, so what ? Do you think I am rude to you ? Sorry but I cannot see how I can try to be more helpful. You decided to waste your time trying to develop ideas that won't lead you anywhere. I try to help you stop wasting your time by informing you on the situation: that physicists already succeeded to find the right theory of electromagnetism and do not need your help.
This is a fact that may sound rude to you, since you have invested your emotions into the belief that you found valuable ideas, and you started to identify yourself with your ideas, so that you feel any criticism to your ideas as a personal attack against you. But now I give you the chance, to accept the facts and stop wasting your time, and that is a chance I give you to avoid the inevitable result that no matter what I may wish or try, anyway this fact (that physicists already found the right theory of electromagnetism and don't need your help) will come back to you, so that it will become even harder to you in the future than it may seem now, after you would have invested still more of your energy into these ideas that won't lead you anywhere.
Are you really a thinker rather than feeler ? Such misinterpretations of claims of facts as if they were personal attacks just expressing or motivated by some sort of animosity to a person, seems more an attitude of feelers than thinkers, even if admittedly it may happen to thinkers too.
, nor do I recall discussing anything that I am working on - and yet you are quite happy to call me a "crank".
What's this story about my feelings ? Where did I ever express happiness about this ? If not, why do you imagine this ? I reported facts, which are matter of facts and have nothing to do with whether they may make you or I happy or upset.
It is not my facts. My own person has nothing to do with this, I have no kind of responsibility for these facts. Of course you did not attack me, so what ? since these facts have nothing to do with me, even less with your attitude towards me.
The success of currently known theories of electromagnetism is a well-known fact, accepted by all physicists.
If you had time to write " the crackpot index"
The Crackpot Index was written by John Baez, not I.
The present physical theories still need work: Relativity and QM don't get along, and the scientific community calls Dark Matter and Dark Energy "Dark" because they don't understand them despite their being calculated to comprise much more of the universe than normal matter and energy.
Of course I know it, so what ? This remark is completely out of subject.
The subject here was : do we
correctly understand electromagnetism ?
And the answer is totally yes.
Of course, understanding electromagnetism does not mean understanding absolutely everything in the universe, so what ?
What the f**k is this idea that just because we do not absolutely understand everything, we must consider that
all what is already known should just go to the trash?
Such an idea has nothing to do with science.
It is rather a religious idea.
It is the view of Christians who, to avoid any critical discussion about their faith, just ask you the question : Do you know God personally ? No ? You don't know God ? Then all your arguments are worthless since without God, all your thoughts are fallible, bye bye.
This impossibility to conceive any intermediate situation between divine omniscience and total ignorance.
If science was possible and successful, on the other hand, it is because people had the courage to consider the possibility to develop knowledge step by step. That we don't need to give up and reject every minute everything we already know just because we are not God, as it is still possible to know and verify something, and then something more, and more... until the accumulated knowlege eventually becomes huge.
You seem exceedingly certain of your claim despite evidence to the contrary.
All evidence is on my side. But you imagine otherwise as you misinterpret everything.
Please tell me : do you understand physics better than I ? Do you understand general relativity and quantum physics well ?
Those who do, will confirm what I just wrote. (If I remember well, the amazingly high success of our understanding of electrodynamics was reported by Richard in [nomedia="http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_feynman.html"]Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine | Video on TED.com[/nomedia], but I cannot check now - namely, the agreement between theory and measurement for the magnetic momentum of the electron, which involves the theory very deeply in details).
You imagine otherwise, because you refer to some of their reports which you misinterpret.
They report that there are many things we don't know. Of course. Because the things we don't know are what they are working on, so they are important for their work.
But it does not mean that it has anything to do with a possible challenge to the things that are already well-known, such as electromagnetism.
This discussion is just a pitiful but remarkable confirmation of this point that I reported in that speech in preparation:
Indeed, there were times when my contributions in online forums were just dismissed without any care to check the arguments, by participants who saw me there as a stupid arrogant crank when my claims did not fit what they liked to hear and were ready to see as serious claims.
Including when I was just trying to report the current state of scientific knowledge on a given question, to people who didn't know it and couldn't believe it.(...)
In all that, was my academic status ever considered as a possible motivation to still try to take me seriously ? Not the least bit.
I hope that you're feeling better now. Although calling someone crazy and a crank does nothing to reveal the truth, so doing does not invalidate the arguments of those doing the calling: I'm still waiting for your reply to my rebuttal of your argument that elements with higher atomic numbers are more magnetic than elements with smaller ones, and I feel like you're ignoring me.