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Originally Posted by Doodler
I'd like to add one. When challenging an accepted concept with an alternate point of view, be sure you fully understand the concept you are trying to challenge. Sometimes, defending an ATM idea is as much effectively demonstrating why existing ideas are wrong as much as showing yourself to be right.
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Related to this we could add:
Be sure that you understand meanings of the words you use. There are many experts on this board, and if you try to bluff your way by using fancy technical buzz words, someone can and will call you on it.
Edit to add because I hit submit instead of preview:
Cyrek1 gives a great example of what I mean in this post.
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Originally Posted by cyrek1
[snip] The photon is composed of a 'negative virtual charged particle field congregate' [/snip]
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Old laser physicists never die, they just become incoherent.
These days, every Tom, Dick, and Harry thinks he knows what a photon is, but he is wrong. - Albert Einstein
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