Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Phil’s Dad]

Thank you, David, for the advice. I know you are only trying to be helpful in pointing out that some people need things explained more clearly than others. I shall take on board what you say and try to stick to very simple language when replying to your posts in future. I can not though claim to know how your mind works or what it was you thought I meant.

dash wrote:

I see. Now as a bit of useful feedback, in the future you might want to state exactly what you mean, because the “Until then…” was very ambiguous, and what first came to mind was nothing whatsoever like what you intended to convey.

Now I’d like to ask another question of you.

I shall attempt now to answer, clearly and concisely, your subsequent question.

Yes I did read the entire thread. I did of course see your spinning weight idea but as far as I can discover the phenomenon you hypothesize has never been observed. Have you carried out this experiment? Did it support your hypothesis?

You see, David, the scientific method requires that experiments are carried out, not just talked about. Your solution might be elegant, feasible, affordable, repeatable and tick all the other boxes for good science. Until someone actual does it we are no further forward.

That is not for one minute to suggest that you should not continue to come up with the ideas. But until the experiment is carried out you have not disproved the established theory and ought not to base further statements on the assumption that you have.

Which returns us to my original postings. “So all you need to do is come along with a repeatable test that shows the conservation thing to be wrong.” I accept of course that it may not be you personally but someone needs to actually do it for the original convention to be dismissed.

Finally; I am not sure there are sides to be taken. This is a discussion forum not a battle ground.

OT – David, at some stage I would love to discuss MI with you (although maybe it would be stretching the generosity of a Focus Fusion forum to do it here) Before turning to politics I was Head of IT for a couple of multi-nationals. We did a bit of work on Neural Networks and NLI back in the late eighties. Things will have moved on since then and it would be good to catch up.