Darby
Epochal Historian
Greg,
Where did you get that from this:
In your last post you may have been annoyed at me but you suddenly, and I thank you for it, started to post in plain English that we can all understand. I got the message load and clear even if I don't understand why.
You call it debunking. What do you think that a real scientist goes through during the peer review process? The peer reviewers take the paper apart sentence by sentence looking for holes in the theory, looking for vague language that is not readily understandable, looking for statements that are not supported, looking for conclusions based on false premises, looking for math errors, etc. Of course scientists occassionally get pissed off at the reviewers because they've spent so much time putting their paper together only to get "knit-picked". In the end, however, the paper ends up being cleaned up and ready for publication (or its rejected). Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne had a 25 year long ongoing peer review, with Thorne as the reviewer, concerning Hawking Radiation and whether or not there is information loss as a black hole evaporates. Thorne was there to debate Hawking every time Hawking spoke on the topic to fellow cosmologists. Is was friendly but is was unrelenting criticism from Thorne. Try enduring that sort of "debunking" for a quarter of a century from a friend.
It's the same here, though not quite as serious. All that I'm asking you is to go back and look at your initial post on the thread - read it, as best you can, as if it was new information to you and posted by someone else. Then ask yourself if people can actually understand the message absent being inside your brain where all of the other information concerning the topic is stored, i.e. all they know are the words on the page.
I guess that when Darb comes back always debunking or seeing some sort of "trick" I am trying to pull out of my ass, I get a little disturbed.
Where did you get that from this:
I agree that we have people who purposely post nonsense "just because". I really don't believe that Greg is one of those people. Based on all of his posts since he joined the forum I'm convinced that he believes what he posts, wants to share his thoughts and get some feedback.
The real problem is that he posts in a form that he probably never uses when he's just having a casual conversation, whether in person, texting, on the phone or in an email. He ends up using language in his posts that isn't understandable to the reader. I'm encouraging him to post in terms that he might use in those conversations so we can get a better handle on his ideas.
In your last post you may have been annoyed at me but you suddenly, and I thank you for it, started to post in plain English that we can all understand. I got the message load and clear even if I don't understand why.
You call it debunking. What do you think that a real scientist goes through during the peer review process? The peer reviewers take the paper apart sentence by sentence looking for holes in the theory, looking for vague language that is not readily understandable, looking for statements that are not supported, looking for conclusions based on false premises, looking for math errors, etc. Of course scientists occassionally get pissed off at the reviewers because they've spent so much time putting their paper together only to get "knit-picked". In the end, however, the paper ends up being cleaned up and ready for publication (or its rejected). Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne had a 25 year long ongoing peer review, with Thorne as the reviewer, concerning Hawking Radiation and whether or not there is information loss as a black hole evaporates. Thorne was there to debate Hawking every time Hawking spoke on the topic to fellow cosmologists. Is was friendly but is was unrelenting criticism from Thorne. Try enduring that sort of "debunking" for a quarter of a century from a friend.
It's the same here, though not quite as serious. All that I'm asking you is to go back and look at your initial post on the thread - read it, as best you can, as if it was new information to you and posted by someone else. Then ask yourself if people can actually understand the message absent being inside your brain where all of the other information concerning the topic is stored, i.e. all they know are the words on the page.