On Saturday 04 June 2016 17:55:41 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 June 2016 19:06:01 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thank you for the link Lisi, I believe it was helpful in showing me > > that at my age, I am finally in over my head, > > Many years ago now I had that salutary lesson - at a MUCH younger age. > My six year old son was musically gifted. There is an exam in music > theory (Grade 5) which is/was a necessary prerequisite for getting > anywhere in classical music over here. He got 99 or 98 out of 99. > Most of the theory was double dutch to me, and I did feel that I ought > at least to know what my son was talking about, so I did the exam > myself. The person teaching me said. "He is way ahead of you, and > you know that you will never catch him up don't you, let alone > overtake him? So I hope that that is not your aim." > > The first time I ever said to my son "I don't know darling, you will > have to ask Jane Doe" he was around twenty months old. > > I think he may read this list. I don't think he has been told the > first of those before - and he probably doesn't remember the second. > > Even Einstein won't have known everything. > > We two are still trying to learn. Let us hope we are succeeding, > anyhow some of the time, so we are not yet brain-dead, merely not > omniscient. > > Join the club, Gene. It's nice to have you on board. ;-) Omniscience > is SO wearing. ;-) > > Lisi > > I have it on the best of authority - a local medical specialist - that > no-one can live for ever, three score years and ten is man's allotted > span, 83 is already 13 years more. Go away and shut up. Well, that > last wasn't put _quite_ like that, only almost - but the rest is > verbatim.
I may have had an advantage on you. My mother was slightly smarter than the average bear, and was the only girl in the class on aviation technology that was offered in 1929 at Des Moines Technical high school in Des Moines Iowa, state capital. By the time I was 5 I was reading nearly any book I could carry. I can also say that while she did not know the answers to all the questions a 5 to 8 year old could ask, she did know where the county library was, so I found myself reading high school level physics books by the time I was 7ish. Some of those questions haven't been fully explained yet, like what is gravity? It blew my young mind that my mother didn't know that! They've invented the Graviton is a transmission particle, but there are 2 schools of thought on it because the only way to measure its speed is by conflicting theories. One of course being that it cannot exceed C speed. But if you plug C speed into planetary orbital math, the orbital math predicts that our earth should have spiraled into the sun billions of years ago. The difference is the vector force direction because C speed puts that vector at the center of mass of the sun where we see it now, NOT where it was 8 minutes ago when that light left headed this way. And the orbital math results only agree with us still being here is if that vector points at the center of mass where it was 8 minutes ago. And that implies there is something that can travel 1,000,000x C speed at least. If we could turn gravity off and on we could measure this propagation velocity first hand and settle the argument, but thats a trick we haven't, despite all the Star Trek movies, mastered yet. Einstein couldn't merge that into a T.O.E. and Hawking spends most of his time thinking about extreme gravity and black holes, where C speed determines that we can't see a block hole, only infer its mass from the sub-luminal velocities of other stars orbiting it that we can measure. So its a question that I doubt will be answered in my remaining time. And there are brains at least 300 IQ points above whats left of mine that have spent decades playing what if games with it in the night when they can't sleep. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
