[lbo-talk] Am I or Am I Not Charlie?

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 07:08:23 PST 2015


On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Bill Bartlett <william7 at aapt.net.au> wrote:


>
> On 10/01/2015, at 4:42 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> As you can see, I can't really get my head around it properly. Thus my
> conception of space/time being compressed/bent is just a feeble way to
> expressing something beyond my understanding. But that's just a problem
> with my feeble brain. I probably would have been able to understand it when
> I was a smoker, but bow that I no longer have the crutch of nicotine I seem
> to have lost about 25% of my cognitive capability.
>

It's neither you nor your nicotine deficiency. The subject is just plain hard and anybody remotely normal has to work with the math a long time, under guidance, to get a feel for things that doesn't rest on analogies. The pros usually have this only for slices at a time, and even then the 20th century material drives many into more concrete fields, like fluid dynamics (writ large).

It's frustrating enough without the 24-hour-a-day limit.

-- Andy "It's a testament to ketchup that there can be no confusion."



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