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| penfold:
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on March 11, 2022, 06:05:23 pm ---[...] This is far from the truth. Physics is not only at the origin of modern engineering, but also still drives important advancements and even revolutions. --- End quote --- Isn't that a bit of a chicken and egg argument? Surely to prove it you would need to demonstrate that each physicist could have managed each of those discoveries without any work of an engineer and that all engineers were incapable yet still attempting it nonetheless? |
| aetherist:
--- Quote from: TimFox on March 11, 2022, 06:13:47 pm ---By the way, I do not believe that the 20th Century was the "dark age of science", based on my life during the second half of the century, my reading of the history of science, and my use of "modern physics" in practical situations. --- End quote --- Einsteinian stuff came into play after Einstein died, ie due to advances in instruments, & computers, etc. Luckily most areas that used Einsteinian stuff were mainly fun playtoys for the boysngirls. But for sure a lot of time & money was & still is being wasted on LIGO & the CMBR etc. Lots of silly Nobels for silly particles. No real harm done. I feel sure that the real brains know that Einsteinian stuff is krapp. It’s a state secret. Spy versus spy stuff. As instruments get even more accurate we are finding moreso that Einsteinian stuff is krapp. There is nothing Einsteinian used in GPS. The Einsteinian Dark Age of science will soon end. With a whimper. Koz really nothing much is gonna change much. It’s a side show. |
| aetherist:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 11, 2022, 06:37:45 pm --- --- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on March 11, 2022, 01:14:09 am ---I think the main question is: how can I use your theory to reduce my electric (or is that electic) bill? --- End quote --- Since electrons are apparently some kind of hugging photons - if I got it right - you could probably get free electricity by asking those photons to give free hugs. --- End quote --- (1) My new (electon) electricity is due primarily to hugging electons (on the surface of wires). (2) However my new (electon) electricity does indeed also include the secondary effect (secondary electricity) due to hugging electrons (on the surface of wires). Electons saturate the negative plate of a capacitor, & free surface electrons saturate the positive plate. (3) And my new (electon) electricity does include the old (electron) electricity, ie drifting electrons (inside a wire) (but says that this is insignificant). A trouble with electons is that they are difficult to find. What i mean is that if u google electons u will get 637,000 results, mainly links to papers etc that are re electrons, koz these papers tend to have at least one spelling mistake where they spell electron electon. So, i/we might need to adopt a policy of including the word electoon, or electonn, in every electon paper, so that googlers can find it. Krapp – i googled electoon & got 13,000 results. And i googled electonn & got 1090 results. Electooon gets 7 results. Electonnn gets 61 results. That’s better. Physics hasn’t done much for Civil Engineering, except for computers, & laser surveying say. But Civil Engineering has given us new (electon) electricity, ie electons. Faraday Maxwell Heaviside & Poynting & Steinmetz & Co would be impressed. But u guys'n'gals aint. |
| TimFox:
Do you know what the term "Civil Engineering" actually means? see https://www.britannica.com/technology/civil-engineering Originally, the discipline of building roads and bridges was named "Civil Engineering" to distinguish it from "Engineering", which meant military engineering, as in the "Engineer, hoist with his own petard" mentioned in Hamlet. Ironically, many professionial civil engineers are now in the military, as in the US Army Corps of Engineers, who have jurisdiction over navigable waterways and other civilian infrastructure. |
| aetherist:
--- Quote from: TimFox on March 11, 2022, 08:44:33 pm ---Do you know what the term "Civil Engineering" actually means? see https://www.britannica.com/technology/civil-engineering Originally, the discipline of building roads and bridges was named "Civil Engineering" to distinguish it from "Engineering", which meant military engineering, as in the "Engineer, hoist with his own petard" mentioned in Hamlet. Ironically, many professionial civil engineers are now in the military, as in the US Army Corps of Engineers, who have jurisdiction over navigable waterways and other civilian infrastructure. --- End quote --- I failed to explain that aetherist is a retired Civil Engineer. CE's are happy to deal with dirt water concrete & steel, but are allergic to electricity. But this little CE has overcome his fear of electricity & has given us electons. U can't stop genius. |
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