ObeBoneKenobi said:
Just that Prof.'s ideas he mentioned deserve no more respect or attention than any other philosophies and ideas throughout history and any other possible ones.
They aren't my "ideas" --
so get off that! They are
applied Newtonian-Einstein astrophysics commonly referred to as classical with modern physics. And other than that, I simply reguritated what theories exist and what theories are no longer considered accurate.
There have been many people here that have stated certain things are undeniable or fact. Furthermore, there have been many people without any background in understanding classical, much less modern, physics that is part of the problem.
Those 2 points right there are
the real problem with people lacking "open minds" here.
ObeBoneKenobi said:
The Modern views that appear advanced and convince us that they're the best we have, are really just particular trails for particular purposes. When you follow one path, of course that is the one that will appear most prominant. And I don't believe those are the way to find alien life. That is what sucks most about the education system and how everything functions.
Huh? So you're saying people with solid understandings of calculus-based Classical and Modern physics are the problem? That we "can't think outside the box"?
Get real! The ones that have the
required scientific and/or engineering understanding are still the people who come up with the next generation and theories, concepts and inventions! Now you
can be "self-taught," such as Newton was (for his time, he was clearly a prodigy), and Einstein was largely self-educated to a point (although he did have some instruction by others). But they
still learned the foundations and built their work on those of others BEFORE they could even remotely theorize and begin to explain the universe!
You can
NOT come up with the future without understanding the first thing about
actual physics! A common misnomer is that people like Newton, Einstein and countless others had no understanding or education (self taught or formal) of physics.
You still need to tools to understand and explain the universe -- even if your theories and inventions eventually contradict thought!
This is why I consider many of you in this thread to be
very narrow minded. You think you're being "creative," but in reality, a lot of your views are based on "popular science" you have read or seen -- and then formulated them together. At the same time, several of you have clearly shown me you are "closed minded" on what you think are indisputable facts.
Science is based on taking the unexplained and trying to explain it. That includes taking current knowledge and applying it, and modifying it when it doesn't fit. And
in all cases, that requires you have calculus-based foundations in classical and modern physics! That is NOT "optional"! Otherwise we get a load of "popular science" non-sense like I'm seeing right there -- with so-called "indisputable facts" like the theories of the "big crunch" and other theories most scientists now say there are many problems with.
Education is
never the problem. Education is
freedom of understanding because you at least have some tools to build upon, even if you end up modifying those tools in the end. These tools have been handed down from generations, based on lessons learned, and take lifetimes to realize on your own!
In fact, that's a core difference between "traditional" education in science or applied science (traditional engineering) and "vocational" education in applied engineering or technology. The latter only tells you how things work today. The former gives you the tools to realize and build tomorrow -- even if you have to modify them to fit the future!