tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post640262692746290562..comments2024-03-25T02:15:02.505-07:00Comments on Nancy's Blog: LaunchPad -- Day 1adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442349453021015062noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-35490631503979475662008-08-04T15:42:00.000-07:002008-08-04T15:42:00.000-07:00bluesman miike Lindner said...Isn't the Heliocentr...bluesman miike Lindner said...<BR/><I>Isn't the Heliocentric theory the greatest hoax ever foisted upon a bewildered Humanity?</I><BR/><BR/>That is as may be. It certainly took a genius of the stature of Einstein to overthrow Copernicanism and point out that <I>no frame of reference is privileged,</I> not even the sun. Indeed, since we now know that so-called "gravity" is merely a warping of space-time caused by the mere presence of matter, we have returned to a more sensible Aristotelian vision of gravity as an attribute of matter itself rather than a separate entity called a "force" that acts <I>on</I> matter As Aristotle once said matter seeks unity to the extent that it already possesses unity; or, in modern terms, the more matter a body possesses, the more gravity it exhibits. <BR/><BR/>Thus we may use the geodesics to set up a cosmology centered on the earth as easily as one centered on the sun.TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-67547313948904575662008-08-04T09:09:00.000-07:002008-08-04T09:09:00.000-07:00Mike, I'm surprised at you. Always thought you're ...Mike, I'm surprised at you. Always thought you're a man who can seperate truth from nonsense. Isn't the Heliocentric theory the greatest hoax ever foisted upon a bewildered Humanity? How can the massive Earth move? No way, bro! Yet another sad example of Big Science obfuscating a big issue. And it's amazing the Conspiracy went back to the Ancients. Who was paying =them= off, I ask yez! Well, I have an ah-deer, but I'm saving it for my forthcoming book COMMON SENSE COSMOLOGY.bluesman miike Lindnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730308789066832084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-32856283434068023522008-08-01T12:50:00.000-07:002008-08-01T12:50:00.000-07:00I myself lucked-out and had literally a Small Hand...I myself lucked-out and had literally a Small Handful of quality teachers when I was a kid. Even then, there are still things that one would figure should be taught in every school, maybe more in "ghetto" area schools than in wealthy areas, such as balancing a checking account, planning a career, personal financial planning, networking, etc. You know, Real World Pragmatic skills. Yet how may people get a paper diploma without having learned any real world survival skills. <BR/><BR/>So it's no wonder the sciences take a beating when it comes time to certify teachers. The same's true for "teachers" and grammar. <BR/><BR/>Oh well, what's to do, move to Galt's Gulch? :-><BR/><BR/>mas99999<BR/>Mesa, Az.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16962224347551157239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-57698825762501010232008-08-01T11:07:00.000-07:002008-08-01T11:07:00.000-07:00The dark ages is just beneath the veneer of societ...<I>The dark ages is just beneath the veneer of society</I> <BR/><BR/>Funny thing is that during the Dark Age those who were not otherwise busy fighting off Vikings, Saracens, or Magyars at least knew that everything sticks to the earth because earth and water seek their natural places and their natural motion is downward. (Air and fire move upward.) This may not be quite the way we would put it, and we know today that air has gravity, not levity; but at least it goes in the right direction. <BR/><BR/>They would never have said "because the earth spins" because they didn't imagine that the earth did so. <BR/><BR/>In fact, it was used as an argument against the earth spinning. If the earth were spinning, we would all go flying off into space! <BR/><BR/>Agreed, about the level of science teaching in the schools.TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-33149324743790455112008-08-01T10:00:00.000-07:002008-08-01T10:00:00.000-07:00I had an 8th grade teacher introduce light years a...I had an 8th grade teacher introduce light years as a unit of time.<BR/><BR/>Nevermind that this is pretty basic stuff everyone could/should know, it highlights the fact that most elementary and middle school teachers are not required to know much math or science, just "how to teach".<BR/><BR/>However, I can see myself making the "Earth is closer to the sun" mistake if caught off guard. Elliptical orbits... yeah that sounds right... (five minutes later) wait isn't it winter in the southern hemisphere during our summer?Neal Holtschultehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03887759417884373192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-14794471708297373142008-08-01T06:56:00.000-07:002008-08-01T06:56:00.000-07:00My son's grade 7 science teacher told the class th...My son's grade 7 science teacher told the class that the reason everything sticks to the earth is because the earth spins. He come home upset because this was wrong since we had talked about the very same myth back when he was in grade 3. His grade 3 teacher had also said this. <BR/><BR/>He asked me if he should correct the teacher and I said he should, and if there were any problems, that he should tell me. The next day he went and talked to the teacher and she dismissed his comment about the earths mass by saying that the class had moved on. <BR/><BR/>The dark ages is just beneath the veneer of society...maybe 4 weeks away.Robert Gus Gissinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07327085251810213819noreply@blogger.com