Gene wrote,

Cecil,

This has become unusually entertaining.

You have declared experimentation to be unnecessary, e.g., your Diamond
antenna
story. You have declared math models to be unnecessary and incorrect on
numerous
occasions.

I have worked with a lot of scientists in my career; some were experimentally

biased, some were theoretically biased, and many understood that both
approaches
were useful.

However, I do not believe I have ever encountered a "scientist" who rejected
both experimental and mathematical approaches at the same time.

73,
Gene
W4SZ


Gene, people who come up with simple "my easy-to-understand,
the-scientists-think-
they-know-everything-but-don't" theories usually don't have much use for either

mathematics or experimentation. Indeed, why should they? Since the theories
they've
thought up in their heads already explain everything, mathematics and
experimentation are
merely redundant. It's the same logic that was used to burn what was left of
the
library at Alexandria (after the Christians had destroyed most of it, already):
everything
you need to know is in the Koran, so these books are useless.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH