07-February-2004, 07:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Northwest Ohio
Posts: 77
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Oh, I LIKE this! The longer it goes on, the deeper and more informative it gets. Everyone has made some very valuable insights, additions and observations of their own... Wat a unique place this is!
I liked the response about the fellow who had formed theories that weren't accepted until he became part of NASA. How many of us who are quite ordinary people hold a frustrated scientist inside? Perhaps we are nothing more than the person next door who likes to study sunspots and can tell you with 75% percent accuracy when we're expecting a CME... But because we're "ordinary" and unable to express express things in science "terms", we have no validity in our claims. (and boy how we smile when we learn what we expected came true!) Perhaps a dude you observe with once in a while says, "You know, I'll bet we could jump across the concept of space/time through quantum entanglement." But since he's only your local carpenter, no one is really going to pay any great attention to the fact that he understands things about dimension instinctively that someone with a master's degree doesn't.
It's great fun to think this way, isn't it?
I really appreciate all the great links to pages to help illustrate just exactly what we've been talking about. You are very right, sir... It all boils down to communication skills. Where would we be without those minds in the middle who are able to grasp those concepts and put them into words understood by all? (or at least inspire us to continue to reach for understanding...) A rare and beautiful talent are those that can combine both! And so human-kind has given us the likes Albert Einstein, Richard Fenyman, Carl Sagan and yes, even Stephen Hawking...
And poetry! How brilliant you are to realize that all of this is a cadence! All tied together... Mathmatics, harmonics, poetry, cosmology, music, art and even our humble observances. Mmmmm... Mmmmm... Mmmmmm... More food for thought here than takin' a Mensa test on a snowy Saturday afternoon!
Ya'll are too cool... 
Rock On,
~T
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