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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (49294)	5/2/2004 3:03:37 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi DJ, I've always found the most reputable source to be my own thinking. If what others say [including Science]doesn't make sense, it's usually the case that they have got it wrong. One of my criticisms of the education system is that it's strong on learning and weak on thinking. It's strong on obedience and weak on self-determination. It's strong on compliance and weak on independence. It's excellent on dogma and very weak on heresy. It likes a herd and can't herd cats. Similarly across the broader community, which becomes a real problem when governments are involved. Similarly across most individuals, who join a status quo cult and refuse to reason. Then, of course, there's the difficulty of expression, where things are poorly expressed, then wrongly interpreted. My point that the universe is made of energy is not to debate quarks and neutrinoes but to point out that there really isn't a shortage of energy. There is only a shortage of energy at a particular price. There is always a shortage of energy in that it does have a cost [despite the fond hopes of noocular power not being metered back in the 1950s]. E = mc2 seems to have held up quite well for nearly a century. So, since E is energy, and there's a lot of mass around the place, not all of which is iron, it's reasonable in our little context to say the universe is made of energy. The problem is how to get it in the form we prefer at a cost we like, in the place we want, at the time we need it. Also, since entropy processes have a long way to run, we don't look likely to fizzle out any time soon. It's nice to know you are human. But the universe still is made of energy! The doomsters think we are running out of energy, which is obviously silly. If energy cost $50 a barrel of oil equivalent, there would be a LOT of energy popping out of the woodwork [literally]. If we aren't running out of energy, then the greenhouse will cook us. If the greenhouse won't cook us, then it'll cause an ice-age. It's essentially a trail of woe, with the common theme being that things are really bad and going to get a lot worse, though the history of people is that we make things a lot better [steps backwards notwithstanding]. There are now 6 billion of us having a very comfortable life compared with 1 billion of us a century or three ago, having a generally harder life and a lot shorter too. People like a car which doesn't break down and calculators costing $2 is a lot better than an abacus. BTW DJ, I consider my BP experience to be a very reputable source. BP's data is excellent and reputable sources agree with that. I don't think I've ever seen National Enquirer. Mqurice