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Hold your cursor over the link and look at the bottom left corner of your browser window where it identifies links: that's a link to Greg's personal email. If you don't have an email program like outlook, nothing will happen when you press it: but you can copy and paste the email address to your email program.rayjohn01 said:To Chroot Thanks for the reply -- at the bottom of this page there is a link 'contact us' it never let's you in -- why is that ?.
We are worried about our site being dragged down to the level of similar boards....what exactly are you worried about ??
Btw, your misleading characterization of Einstein and his work speaks volumes. As I said before, its a red-flag: When someone says "you guys would probably have written off Einstein!" (and btw, we hear this a lot -about Einstein, flat earth, the sound barrier, etc.), the implication is either: 'I'm Einstein and future generations will see it' or 'the mainstream was wrong then, therefore it must be wrong now.' Such arguments are not scientific.
Somewhere around here, someone posted a "you might be a crackpot if..." quiz: comparing one's-self to Einstein scores very high on the crackpot-o-meter.
You're viewing the learning process exactly backwards because you're missing a key piece of the learning process: in order to form an informed opinion, a person has to first learn about the subject. In TD, if a physics novice goes in, they have absolutely no way of knowing what is trash and what isn't and no capacity to judge for themselves. That's why the learning process must be guided by those who already know the subject and have already made a judgement.YOU cannot and should not try to shield others from others opinion all you can do is to encourage people to form their OWN opinion and to be critical of what they see and read .
This misunderstanding of how to learn is perhaps the biggest challenge we face here. You have no idea how often in TD we hear something to the effect of "why should I learn Relativity - I already know its wrong?" The natural response, of course, is "if you don't even know what it says, how can you know its wrong?"
That is exactly the reason we are needed - to separate the real physics from the garbage. Someone who doesn't know much science will not be able to process all the information the media gives them and come to their own (correct) conclusions.If you think about this you will see that we are totally inundated by schlock stuff in magazines TV and the Internet everyday on every topic under the sun...
More to the point, as mentors, that's our job - and graphic7, though not a mentor, has a pretty good understanding of what we do and why.graphic7 said:If I am setting myself up as a judge, it's because of my experience on the matter.