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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 436 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
you are conflating an idiot of a doctor with the science of medicine
Yes I was, and I was unecesarily taking out on everyone. But I did not take it out on science itself, or physics itself. Only the jerks who interpret it. Which is not everyone. I believe I have the rightto do so. I do not rely on my common sense for everything, I never stated that. That would be foolish. I have said this before, I know nothing.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 436 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
Ok, I haven't had anytime to devote to learning physics, but let me explain where I am at with this problem.
First off, I fully understand the implimications of the problems without knowing pyhsics. I would also be able to solve it in the real world.I will try to describe what I see as going on. You have the force of the car moving, plus the force of the slope, minus the friction of the skid. Its pretty simple. I also understand that the length you skid increases to the square relative to the speed you are traveling. Of course real world measurements would involve a few more things, but IF I had to figure out if this guy was speeding or not using my common sense, I would take a car of the same, using the same tires, and do some skid tests at the seen of the accident. After a couple of slides, I would be able to clearly see if the person was speeding or not. Even if the skid mark came out to be 24 mph, he still hit the other car, and you would then need to figure out the force of the collsion, and add that to his speed, to get the total speed the car was moving. I just haven't figured out really how to apply the coefficient of friction to the formula to calculate the speed. So my question is, if I currently do not understand the numbers, does this mean I cannot see what is going on using my common sense? I still plan on understanding this.Also another question Lam, did the length of the skid increase by 13.875 percent because of the slope?
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Mammuthus Member (Idle past 6495 days) Posts: 3085 From: Munich, Germany Joined: |
quote: I did not claim that you know nothing. I am disagreeing with your earlier stance that common sense often prevails against education and /or methodological naturalism. Not knowing the background of a subject is not a way to gain special insight into that subject. Gut feeling and a sense that you are right is not going to solve how genetic imprinting works for example. At least not without knowing a lot about genetics and imprinting with which to even have a chance of getting a gut feeling about how it works. One of the reasons methodological naturalism developed was because appeals to authority, supernatural beings, and common sense do not allow ones understanding of the natural world to advance.
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Rrhain Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
riVeRraT responds to me:
quote:quote: Did you try the experimet I suggested? If not, then the problem is not that it hasn't been proven. It's that you've been too stubborn to notice. This is not the first time I have asked you if you tried the experiment.
quote: No, it can't. That's why we have been asking you various questions that are fairly simplistic in the fields in which they come up but are incredibly difficult to determine if you're just trying to "common sense" your way through it.
quote: Incorrect. The medical field is just as technical as any hard science. Do you seriously think that doctors aren't trained in diagnostic methods? Question: If your knee isn't hurting, is it actually undamaged? Rrhain WWJD? JWRTFM!
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Rrhain Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
riVeRraT responds to me:
quote: But it remained flooded for five months after it stopped. Did you try the experiment I suggested? I'm simply asking you to keep the object submerged for 20 minutes. Eventually you need to figure out a way to keep it submerged for 150 days. If you can flood the entire earth such that every square inch of land is submerged at least 20 feet and remains submerged at least 20 feet for five months, why isn't the earth flooded right now? The problem isn't getting the water to the land. It's keeping it there. Rrhain WWJD? JWRTFM!
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Rrhain Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
riVeRraT writes:
quote: See, we have. I still remember the professor's comment during one of them: Everything will be fine so long as you don't eat the radioactive source. You see, while there was a danger from the radiation (and we had to wear the little clips that got developed in order to determine if there was an overexposure) that might cause an elevated cancer risk in 30 or 40 years, the bigger problem was that the source was extremely toxic and would kill you right away. When was the last time you were in a physics lab running an experiment? Did you try the experiment I suggested?
quote: Obviously not because you think the problem is one of physics when it's actually one of topology.
quote: So why haven't you? Have you tried the experiment I suggested?
quote: And yet you got it wrong and had to be shown how to solve it. Do you stick with the door you originally chose or do you switch? We're still waiting for an answer.
quote: While the brute force method does work to solve many problems, it isn't always feasible. That's why you develop methods that will let you know what the answer is without having to completely recreate the scenario. Take evolution, for example. It isn't like we have a spare planet lying around that can be seeded with appropriate organics and left to simmer for 4.5 billion years. How do you plan to brute force your way through a process that takes longer than you could possibly live?
quote: Why not? It's crystal clear to anybody who's had basic physics training.
quote: Yes. Oh, you might have a decent understanding of the broad process, but the devil, as they say, is in the details. Rrhain WWJD? JWRTFM!
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Dr Jack Member Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: Member Rating: 8.3 |
Do you honestly think that if we built buildings without structural analyses, that they wouldn't be collapsing all over the place? People built perfectly servicable buildings for hundreds, nay thousands, of years without any structual analysis. Our buildings wouldn't be collapsing all over the place, they'd just be built using the same repeated principles that have worked before rather than advancing all the time.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 436 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
and common sense do not allow ones understanding of the natural world to advance.
I am not sure what you mean by this, because all of the things we know, were found out by using common sense plus the common sense of others before us.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 436 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
You are so lost dude.
I think the problem is this topic now spans 2 different threads. Would you stop explaining the incredibly obvious to me?The merely obvious will do.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 436 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
But it remained flooded for five months after it stopped.
Care to explain how?Because as far as I know, when it stops raining, the water would drain away rather fast.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 436 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
Obviously not because you think the problem is one of physics when it's actually one of topology.
Ok, anyone care to figure out what is wrong with rhain, because he just doesn't get it. That reply was in response to what sarted this thread.You are lost lol.
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Rrhain Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
riVeRraT responds to me:
quote: No. It is incredibly obvious that you do not understand the incredibly obvious. Do you keep the door you originally chose or do you switch? Rrhain WWJD? JWRTFM!
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
I explained to you that you cannot "think outside of the box" if you are unaware or ignorant of what is inside the box in the first place. quote: Um, yes, it does stop you. You don't know what's inside the box, rat. By definition, you cannot think outside the box before knowing what's inside the box. What we end up doing if we skip the leaning of what's inside the box is just waste a lot of time spouting off a bunch of ignorant, nonsensical, random garbage that anybody who knows what's inside the box will disregard immediately.
quote: Or, you will make nothing but mistakes and never get anything right because you don't have a clue.
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Rrhain Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
riVeRraT responds to me:
quote:quote: Nice try. That's our question to you. You're the one claiming there was a flood. You're the one using the Bible as a reference. Since the Bible claims the flood lasted for 150 days after the 40 days of rain, then it is your job to explain how the earth remain flooded for five months after it stopped.
quote: Then it isn't flooded. Why are you arguing for a flood when you agree that it can't flood? Rrhain WWJD? JWRTFM!
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Mammuthus Member (Idle past 6495 days) Posts: 3085 From: Munich, Germany Joined: |
what I am getting at is that without any education, common sense will not help you solve scientific problems. You have been advocating that common sense alone prevails. In fact, most scientists who have made major discoveries or developed major theories have uncommon sense as they have been able to realize things that the common majority have not.
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