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To: Brumar89 who wrote (100995)	4/11/2005 10:12:21 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Ugh, can't believe I misspelled ignoramus. I hate that and it's too late to change.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (100995)	4/11/2005 10:20:08 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Message 21201112 My only position is in the last sentence. Professional standing doesn't automatically make someone an unquestionable expert in that field or give them access to "the Truth". People outside the field often have greater insights because they are outside. Tiger is a very highly accomplished golfer that didn't graduate with a degree in anything, including his declared major Accounting and Business. It is highly improbable that he had enough time in his pro golfing schedule to learn what engineers and physicists take years to learn as full time students and then usually develop in another 3-5 years of application. They don't spend their time on the golf course, they spend it doing problem sets until they are good at them and then they do research to create a new area of understanding in the field. Probably only a few are as good at problem sets as Tiger is at putting. I've never heard Tiger utter a word about physics and there are no Internet links where such knowledge is documented. It would be fascinating reading if that was how he learned, but he started golfing from mimicking his dad's swing at age 6 months, not by scribbling kinetics equations in his baby food. The facet of golf I named (kinetics)is one that takes 3 or more years of advanced mathematics and specialized university-level courses in numerical analysis and numerical physics to learn. My point was not that he couldn't have done these instead of golf, or even on top of golf, but that it was unnecessary. I made myself clear in this post. Grainne got it and she's not trained in the sciences. Message 21205331