Re: Relativistic aberration

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:09:33 +0000, Richard Hachel wrote:

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Le 13/08/2024 à 20:08, hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel) a écrit :

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Richard Hachel wrote:

  Should we believe EVERYTHING scientists say?

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Of course not.  Particularly when expressing opinions.
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“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal
more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic
and argument than others.”  -- Douglas Adams
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And when they're presenting data, consider how it fits
in with previous data.  And wait for independent confir-
mation.
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Consider the Gran Sasso report of FTL neutrinos.  I
doubted it because it didn't fit with extended SR.
And I was right.

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Yes, me too.
Although the word "doubt" is not strong enough.
Personally I laughed, and I said that the experimenter
had necessarily been wrong.

I didn't laugh, because it's just possible that new data
that disagrees with past data is indicative of new physics.
I was pretty sure it was wrong, but not certain.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
 -- Voltaire

It was for me as obvious as: "We have found a whole natural
number that is between 9 and 10", or "we have finally found
a natural square that is equal to the sum of two other squares".

Physics, and the real world, is different from mathematics.
But even mathematics has its uncertainties:
“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists since
we
cannot prove the consistency.”  -- Morris Kline

It was physically stupid, but it was sad to cry (and it remains
so), it shows that physicists have not understood SR correctly.
They would never have said such bullshit.

Actually, they did a lot of checking their equipment, they just
didn't check the part that was faulty.

Even today, many spit on me (why not) but once in their WC-toilet,
they imagine that we will soon discover tachyons.
It's stupid.
The clowns are them, not me.
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R.H.

I am a clown then.  So are Charles Schwartz, Alan Chodos, Robert Ehrlich
and many others.  As I said, physics is different from mathematics.  The
analogies you've used in the past aren't applicable to physics, which
still has a LOT of unexplored domains.  The domain c < u < infinity is
one such.
You are much too certain.  You should remember your countryman:
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire
"What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth."
 -- Richard Feynman
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” -- Albert Einstein