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You are being disingenuous. The original protest to my comment about Einstein's arithmetic, made the claim that I was in agreement with the eccentrics who clai

You are being disingenuous. The original protest to my comment about Einstein's arithmetic, made the claim that I was in agreement with the eccentrics who claim Einstein's theories are incorrect. To the extent that they have been verified by experiment, I know that the theories are correct. We haven't found gravitational waves yet, which is a concern but all other experiments have worked out. Not my emphasis on experiment: even when theoretical derivations, proofs and the like are flawlessly carried out, that doesn't mean that they correspond with physical reality. That's the whole point of being a physics researcher. That's not well understood by most members of the public; the exciting thing about physics is to prove a theorist wrong through experiment. It's helpful to prove a theorist right, but uninteresting to do so.

zamalek 11y ago
> The original protest to my comment about Einstein's arithmetic My protest with that comment about his arithmetic is that it is incorrect. > You are being disingenuous. No I am not. I am pointing out that you bringing up your educational level is completely irrelevant to the argument. Your education about Einstein's work has absolutely no bearing on your potential knowledge about his person or arithmetic ability - you are setting yourself up as an authority in a plea to authority. I'd take his sister, Maria's, word about his arithmetic ability over yours - regardless of your degree. Your degree, profession, hobby, articles and so forth (that you keep bringing up out of context) hold absolutely no authority in that original assertion that you made. Being a theoretical physicist does not make you right about everything, even on matters about the physicists who pioneered fields that you are an expert on. It is you who is being disingenuous by attempting to diminish other people's intelligence by explaining how you are more intelligent than them by virtue of your talent in physics - I can't fathom any other reason why you would bring up that irrelevant information. I never said that you are stupid, I said that you are wrong. If you believe that you are right because you are a physicist then you are most certainly a fool (which is still different from stupid).

zamalek 11y ago

> The original protest to my comment about Einstein's arithmetic My protest with that comment about his arithmetic is that it is incorrect. > You are being disingenuous. No I am not. I am pointing out that you bringing up your educational level is completely irrelevant to the argument. Your education about Einstein's work has absolutely no bearing on your potential knowledge about his person or arithmetic ability - you are setting yourself up as an authority in a plea to authority. I'd take his sister, Maria's, word about his arithmetic ability over yours - regardless of your degree. Your degree, profession, hobby, articles and so forth (that you keep bringing up out of context) hold absolutely no authority in that original assertion that you made. Being a theoretical physicist does not make you right about everything, even on matters about the physicists who pioneered fields that you are an expert on. It is you who is being disingenuous by attempting to diminish other people's intelligence by explaining how you are more intelligent than them by virtue of your talent in physics - I can't fathom any other reason why you would bring up that irrelevant information. I never said that you are stupid, I said that you are wrong. If you believe that you are right because you are a physicist then you are most certainly a fool (which is still different from stupid).