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Phil’s Dad wrote: 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?

I’m getting the feeling you haven’t actually read this whole thread. And certainly you didn’t read the pdf file referenced very early on.

This isn’t my idea. I have nothing whatsoever to do with this concept of a modified gravity other than I read the pdf file and thought about it a bit. The concept of putting a spinning mass on an airplane to reduce fuel costs was from the original article. I even quoted that piece from the original article. I then just suggested if it worked one could make a spacecraft using the same concept.

Incidentally, your condescending tone is highly offensive. It is also a bit ludicrous, seeing as you are sticking your nose in the middle of a discussion without full knowledge about who said what and when. Now it’s clear your ego is fully in control, rather than admit making a blunder, you dig yourself in deeper. Exactly, amazingly enough, like this other fellow Brian H.

Underneath the obvious holy concept of The Scientific Method is something far more fundamental. I’ve tried to bring it up. It is the realm of what can possibly be known. What can be proved. What is knowledge itself. Some have said this is boring, in a discussion I had with texasbrat. People on this forum appear blind to this fundamental area. The greeks explored it. Philosophy deals with it. It is the true foundation of all knowledge. The scientific method is built on top of it, yet most people here seem wholly ignorant of it.

When I try to point out fundamental limitations in knowledge, I am repeatedly insulted. People jump in in the middle of discussions without understanding the subject matter, and make asses of themselves. You’re just the latest one.

Truth is not subject to majority opinion. Yet people here behave as if it is. People ridicule whatever conflicts with the majority consensus. Exactly as they did back in Galileo’s time.

There is a book called “Blink”. I think some concepts in that book apply here. Here’s my theory. People have worked hard to get their college degree. They have worked so very hard to understand complicated math concepts, complicated physical principles. They’ve finished, gotten their degree. They’re hot stuff, now! Top of the world. They know everything.

Then a person like me comes along and ruins it. I say, “Wait a minute, you know a whole lot of that stuff you learned and were told is gospel, it’s not actually truth. It’s incomplete. Or it’s blatant corruption for political or economic reasons.” I don’t say it in such terms. I merely question conventional wisdom as regards understanding of physics. And as the book “Blink” indicates. people instantly perceive this as destructive to their entire concept of reality, the entire basis for their self confidence.

This education in physics / math required hard work to acquire. It was difficult to get. But does that automatically make it valuable? Digging gold out of the ground is hard work. In the end you get something of certain value. But most people graduating from college, all they’ve managed to do is chew someone else’s gum for 4 years and not spit it out. What real pride can there be in this? What real creative work have these people done? What manner of advancing human knowledge have they done yet? Yet they act as if they’ve already performed miracles.

They use offensive terms like, “Arrogant ignorance.” Such a disgusting term. And so, so offensive when the speaker himself is so blatantly arrogantly ignorant.

I’m disgusted with the people on these forums. It used to be a nice place. Now it’s too offensive for me to want to spend time here.

You can all have fun in your echo chamber. I came here because I loved the book The Big Bang Never Happened. I had hoped to interact with Lerner. Well, he’s a busy fellow. Not much luck there. Some people here are civil, seem to have some real insights and wisdom. But the snotty little bastards ruined it for me, one too many offensively ignorant replies. I’m gone.