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I don't know what? Why do you speak in riddles?

the "C" stands for Constant... which is where the confusion arises. The "Constant" means in a vacuume though.

if Steve drops a hammer, he doesn't know it will fall?

Precisely! Had you not gotten tired of the BS in the other thread, you could have posted that there, and I might have saved some typing.

According to quantum mechanics, there's a chance it will rematerialize in the next room. A very, very slight chance.

sorry I wasn't there for ya buddy but I'm here for you now... and I have my Heisenberg compensator engaged

oh geeze... ok, if Steve doesn't know it, then I do. Cripes, I make my living in fibre-optics. I HAVE TO understand such things as refraction and modal dispersion. It's a fact, proved by actual events that occur every single day.Why oh why do people feel the need to argue proven science?

I say a bunch of stuff, and you will typically say something to the effect of, "That's BS." Then I spend several posts trying to get you to be more specific, and explain what is BS. Then you repeat the same thing, perhaps worded slightly differently. "Can you be more specific?" "That's BS." "Can you be more specific?" "That's BS." "Can you be more specific?" "That's BS." And on and on.Are we having a discussion of Relativistic physics? I don't think I'm the only one believes that it models physical phenomena well regarding things such as the velocity of light.The idea of the speed of light is among the physical phenomena that's well understood. Instead of blathering nonsense, I suggest that you bury your nose in a book or a Web page on the subject, and then come back with your specific issues, if you like. This "you are full of crap--you don't understand the deeper meanings" business is just dumb.> A better question is why do you pretend to misunderstand some simple things, but pretend to know these profound mysteries of the universe and human nature?I see. You're trying to engage me in a conversation on metaphysics rather than a conversation on science. You apparently want to discuss meaning and existence. I'm not sure where human nature comes in to the discussion.I got news for you, buddy. When I tell you I don't understand what you are saying, I mean I don't understand what you are saying. You do not always express yourself very clearly, and I don't think other people understand some of your snippy snippety statements. You can take that to the bank. If you don't believe it, tough shit.

lmao!!that showed him!

I said several different thing in my post. What is untrue?Do you see what I mean, or is your sense of humor just shooting way over my head?> I wasn't arguing proven science. I can't do that!Neither can anyone. Nothing is "proven" in science. It is not geometry. You come up with ideas, test them, retest them, test them again, and adopt the worthy ideas to model the behavior of the universe. For many decades experiments have been conducted regarding the speed of light have supported Einstein's theory, and none that I'm aware of contradict it.> That's where I said I can accept it, but I can't know it.Science is not religion. It evolves and refines. Something that's accepted today may be tossed out tomorrow. There are problems with relativity that quantum mechanics addresses. Life goes on.I hope you understand that the person I was having the discussion with was arguing for relativistic physics, except there was a part of it that he didn't understand. He and I were in the same domain. You seem to be in a different place altogether. I don't know if it's personality or metaphysics, but its not relativistic physics, which is what the subject was.

There's this thing in signal analysis, where you measure a network's impulse response to determine its transfer function. Sometimes it's interesting to use as a stimulus a pulse of great amplitude and short duration (ideally, infinite on both counts) and see what you get. It's sort of like whacking your plumbing with a big hammer.That is his game. Throwing a bomb for fun, and seeing what happens. Often the fallout is lot's of typed words. It's pretty hilarious, eh? You know, like what Aston Kutcher does on MTV?

Have we been watching Barney, and are we stuck on the word "manipulative"? Or the more advanced stuff on Sesame Street, where they discuss "manipulative asshole"?

we've had the discussion about maximum communication with minimum words in the past (good times). Rad's just baiting you and you go for it... it's cute.

In reply to: First, I can believe you know it.Second, all I was saying is Steve doesn't know it. Thank you for that resounding endorsement but I'm generally quite confident that Steve usually has his facts straight.

I know that. It's "bait the arrogant know-it-all who overcompensates about his racism" week. But you know I have a pathological inablity to let even the stupidest stuff by the most moronic people go. If someone with a sad little life gets his jollies that way, I suppose it's better than nothing.

SteveA said it was not proven! But I don't think he knows . You don't know that. You're just a laugh riot.

I know that things are getting tougherWhen you can't get the top off from the bottom of the barrel.Wide open road of my future now... It's looking fucking narrow.All I know is that I don't knowAll I know is that I don't know nothing[x2]We get told to decideJust like as if I'm not gonna change my mind.All I know is that I don't knowAll I know is that I don't know nothing[x2]Whatcha gonna do with yourself,Boy better make up your mind.Whatcha gonna do with yourself boy,You're running out of time.This time I got it all figured outAll I know is that I don't knowAll I know is that I don't know nothing[x4]And that's fine-- Operation Ivy

coffee is nasty lol jk but seriously guys come on. have you ever been struck by someone's breath after they've drank their coffee? it sucks lol

Oh hun have you ever smelled someone's coffee-pickle breath? Instant nausea.

oh gosh that's worse than dying lol