Re: The first postulate is a truism.

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 8:34:04 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:
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On 2025-06-28 16:22:06 +0000, Thomas Heger said:
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Well, that's what you think.
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For me it seems, that Heaviside and Gibbs were 'con-artists' and wanted
to divert physics from true science.
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I don't know enough about Heaviside to comment on what you say about
him (though my guess is that it's complete bollocks to rival the
complete bollocks that you write on other subjects).

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Yes, of course.
Everything TH writes about any historical subject is bollocks.
He makes it up as he goes along, stringing implausibilities and
impossibilities together.
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Heaviside was a self-made man, who did highly original
and very useful work in engineering, electromagnetism,
physics and mathematics.
His contrarian character, obscure methods of publication,
and lack of formal schooling made him less well known
than he could have been.
He liked to pester pedantic academic mathematicians
with his unorthodox methods.
(which worked only too well)
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Heaviside also originated what we nowadays call
the Dirac delta-function in all but the notation.
(as the derivative of a discontinuous function with a unit step)
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The nutters here love him, for he was one of the very few heavyweight
scientists of his time who rejected relativity.

As did Tesla.
One Tesla .gt. (1000 Edisons and 1000000 Einsteins).
WOOF woof-woof woof woof-woof woof
Bertietaylor

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Jan

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