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On Jan 18, 3:36 am, "Ed Cregger"
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Many of you are far more educated than I, but many of you
demonstrate precisely why I chose not to be brainwashed
with
a formal education. Many cannot see past the end of their
noses, yet they insist upon laying down the law regarding
what is acceptable science and what is not. As though
anyone
actually knows anything at all.

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Let's not forget that one's educational level has nothing
to
do with native IQ.

Ed, NM2K

You are correct to say that education has nothing to do
with IQ.
Faraday had little formal training, yet his arduous work
is now
exalted by naming one of the basic electromagnetic laws
after him. But
I take issue with the idea that you can't actually know
anything at
all. For instance, electrodynamic theory was developed 150
years ago,
and the KNOWN successful results of that are numerous.

Newtonian mechanics held up well for hundreds of years. A
whole
industrial revolution was built on it. Yet some pesky
observations by
Michelson and Morley regarding the invariant speed of
light found it
wanting. Relativistic mechanics subsumed Newtonian
mechanics, but
Einstein didn't invalidate Newton. I believe the
mathematical term
"embedding" applies.

I am currently re-studying the original theory of Maxwell,
et. al.,
with the intent of finding some chink in the armor. Tesla
reported
longitudinal electromagnetic wave phenomena, which
contradicts the now-
standard theory that EM waves can ONLY be transversal.
Using Maxwell's
original quaternion equations, before Heviside simplified
them into
the now-standard vector form, one can derive longitudinal
wave
components. If those exist, does that prove you don't know
how to
operate a ham radio? No, it just means you're radiating
something in
addition to what you expect.

You CAN know something and apply it. You just need to
realize that
what you know isn't complete, and never can be.


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I do not disagree with a thing that you have said.


Ed Cregger