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To: Rick Julian who wrote (11677)	5/2/2002 3:22:50 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I am quite confident in my native intelligence We are well aware of that. Misplaced confidence, but lots of it. you denied that there was any scientific basis for my speculation And there still isn't. Physicists also speculate beyond established physics. Many (but not all) like doing it. They do tend to stick a lot closer to the subject than you do, though. They speculate about physics and call it speculation about physics. They don't speculate about international relations and call it physics. (Get it?) I 'm afraid that your inability to process metaphors and symbols precluded your comprehension of my thesis. I understood your metaphor quite well. It is of little use and will quickly becoming misleading if pressed very far, though, so why not deal with the problem in terms of its own field- -politics and international relations? You simply muddy the water your way. Let' see: since we've got forces, masses, and, accelerations in the ME, we must also have velocities (how can we not, since acceleration is the rate of change of velocity) and angular velocities. So what is the analog to the law of conservation of angular momentum? And masses meant gravitational forces. What are they? Which people and countries orbit around which? And what are the shapes and periods of the orbits? >i>re: Feyman: intelligence (which he had in abundance) does not equal wisdom--his decoupling of the progress of philosophy to the progress of science is primary evidence of this, IMO. No. He just knew bullshit when he smelled it.