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Crusader
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
I would speculate that you have a real gift for Physics as well as an intuitive understanding of it. Had you studied that, you would have fared very well. I'm amazed that you read a little here and a little there about physics, relativity, parallel universes, etc. and then were able to write what you just wrote about the subject. My hat is off to you! You are one very bright individual!!
Dear Lakey,
I have no way to judge if what I wrote is advanced or juvenile, since I never took a physics course. I only know the above 'stuff' via shamanism (their version of journeying alternate worlds etc.) Since it is metaphysics, I can't prove any of it. Also, I have read a little bit of Kaku, and I read as of three weeks ago, a little bit of Einstein, and I am still going to read and comment on Gardner.
Thank you if it seems that I am speaking in an advanced level. I am viewing what I wrote as philosophical speculation and of course I want to continue along that vein, as long as I am not claiming to be a physicist and say something definitive. Maybe a physicist would find my views in need of correction or maybe they would see them as valid but overbroad. I have no way to know that. I did know a physicist who lived next door and he liked the things I said although he never corrected me or even clarified anything. So I can't say that he agreed or not since he revealed nothing to me. But then his employment maybe does not ever allow him to speak of those matters, so perhaps in that sense, he had nothing to say. He did however like what I had to say and the way I took it into metaphysical terrain. He was Indian and as a Hindu, the animist version of things fit SOME aspects of Hinduism. I don't remember the exact details of how the fit works although I did get the impression that there are broad areas of interest between the metaphysical and physics among some physicists today. Even if only a few.
The things I wrote above, I wrote. Yes, I authored that entire post. Those were my views of physics. Wrong or right that they may be. That was my content and I wrote it without referring to anything else, in order to answer your questions or comments. I did not copy them from anywhere. Yes, I wrote it unassisted.
I have 100s of pages written on such ideas. But I could never publish them except speculatively since I am not sure how I could contextualize what I had to say in a way that limited itself to the actual discipline I have studied, which is philosophy. Yes, my post was about physics. All I wanted to say was to qualify that since I am not a physicist (yet anyway) I might be wrong about something, so forgive me in advance for that. I just wanted to be sure that I was not claiming to be an authority. I am more than happy to continue to discuss these things as long as everyone knows that I don't claim to be an expert on those things and that I view my comments as possibly either naive or else 'beginning' ideas based on the little I know.
I have only read two of Kaku's books, the train book, a tiny bit online from Minkowski and Carnap, and that is about it. That is my entire training in physics. So you can see why after making that complicated post I felt a bit audacious! And it's true, in life I am told that I tend to 'not see' myself clearly, in the sense I tend to think less of myself than I should. Not because I am in any way down on myself. I am merely a bit self-critical and well aware that the world is filled with those who are way smarter and that I'm nowhere near a position to boast. I am unemployed. So there is no line forming to hire me in any capacity. LOL. Just sayin'.
Oh, and you may be interested in some purple prose I wrote to Hats in response to something she had to say. There I limited myself to discussion of forces from a metaphysical standpoint. http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...chic-attacks&p=1036965&viewfull=1#post1036965
So Lakey, in answer to your question, I wrote what I wrote unassisted. I would never take from sources unless I quoted them and was clear as to what I wrote and what someone else wrote.
Thank you for finding it interesting. I probably qualified my statements to say I was not a physicist as a knee jerk reaction since I didn't want to be attacked again for being perceived as someone who views oneself as an expert. It's only been a week since the last attack and I of course want to make sure that I'm not trying to claim to be a physics professor! Since I am not one.
I would speculate that you have a real gift for Physics as well as an intuitive understanding of it. Had you studied that, you would have fared very well. I'm amazed that you read a little here and a little there about physics, relativity, parallel universes, etc. and then were able to write what you just wrote about the subject. My hat is off to you! You are one very bright individual!!
