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How much scientific evidence does it take to persuade you that your intuition is wrong? Is there any conceivable amount or is it an impossible task?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
This is my intuition speaking to me. It's too showy. It doesn't ring true to me.
That's a valid form of mathematics called modulo. When applied to a 12 hour clock it's modulo 12.
Originally posted by svetlana84
you see the time go around from 1 to 12 then on the full circle you have either 13 o clock in the 24hr system or 1 o clock in the 12 hr system. so 13 equals 1.
or adapted to the 9system: 10 equals 1
Originally posted by Mary Rose
I've been going through my stack of research print-outs this morning. One of them is "RodinAerodynamics.org - featuring the Rodin Coil" which I printed in 2007. . . .
Absolutely fascinating.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
How much scientific evidence does it take to persuade you that your intuition is wrong? Is there any conceivable amount or is it an impossible task?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
This is my intuition speaking to me. It's too showy. It doesn't ring true to me.
Originally posted by 23432
Atomic structure of the universe is a mystery .
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by 23432
Atomic structure of the universe is a mystery .
For me, swahili language is a mystery. But that's because I never took time to learn it. Still, I don't go around claiming that native speakers and world experts on that language got its grammar wrong, simply because I have a feeling they are all wrong. If I did, I would look like a complete moron.
Mary is denying the experimental evidence of individual electrons being fired in the double slit experiment.
Originally posted by 23432
The very model which the science uses is what Mary seems to be questioning
I don't think our intuitions are strange on objects large enough to see, but for objects too small to see, it is strange to think we should be able to trust our intuition. So on the quantum scale, it's not nature that's strange, it's human intuition that's strange.
Quantum mechanics doesn't deserve its fearsome reputation. If you tell people something is supposed to be mysterious, they won't understand it. It's human intuitions that are "strange" or "weird"; physics itself is perfectly normal.
Originally posted by svetlana84 you see the time go around from 1 to 12 then on the full circle you have either 13 o clock in the 24hr system or 1 o clock in the 12 hr system. so 13 equals 1. or adapted to the 9system: 10 equals 1 That's a valid form of mathematics called modulo. When applied to a 12 hour clock it's modulo 12. I explain how that math works on page 98 in this post and how if that's what Rodin is trying to do, he gets it wrong: www.abovetopsecret.com... Read that post and see if that explains how the clock example is a valid form of modulo math, but Rodin's usage is inconsistent with modulo math. When the clock reads 13, and you say that 13 is congruent to 1 in modulo 12 math, you're not adding digits together like Rodin does, right? If you add 1 and 3 together, you get 4. What's the significance of 4? There isn't any, and that's where Rodin's extreme error is if it's modulo math he's trying to apply when he adds the 2 and the 7 of 27 for example. The congruence of 27 and 9 in modulo 9 math has nothing to do with adding the 2 and the 7 in 27. In modulo 8 math, 24 and 8 are congruent, and if you add the 2 and the 4, you get 6. It's really kind of silly because the 2 isn't really 2, it's the notation for 20. This is what makes it "nonsense" as Rodin's endorser put it.
When the clock reads 13, and you say that 13 is congruent to 1 in modulo 12 math, you're not adding digits together like Rodin does, right?
Originally posted by -PLB-
reply to post by 23432
In the meanwhile, science has brought us all the technology we are currently using, such as computers, cars, mobile phones etc. Ironically, all the technology that made it even possible to questions the science is based on this same science.
Originally posted by 23432
Atomic structure of the universe is not a mystery to you too ?
If Rodin learnt conventional physics , do you think he would of had a better understanding of what he doesn't currently understand ?
Or do you think he would still insist on Baha'i heritage of 9's to be represented in his model ?
I understand that you want to stick to a scientifically proven method to explain away what doesn't fit into what you understand to be solid facts .
Rodin doesn't want to play that game at all .
This is correct. Modulo math is valid math and you're doing it correctly, by subtracting the modulo number. That's the way we work with 12 hour clocks. If Rodin had also subtracted the modulo number we could say he was doing modulo math correctly too, but this isn't how he did it, he added the digits.
Originally posted by svetlana84
I just did this with about 20 randomly picked numbers and always got the same results as in rodin's system.
(Please put it to the test)
If this pattern is really true, it leaves me puzzled: on one hand disagreeing rodin's way of calculating the digit sum of numbers, based on 9 but on the other hand it would prove "my" watch-theory which comes to the same results as rodin?
We arbitrarily use a base 10 numbering system, perhaps because most of us have 10 digits on our hands (though a few people have more or less, we just tend to ignore them )
Originally posted by svetlana84
did this with many numbers and came to the same results as rodins digit sums.
there are specials though, all number which can be divided by 9
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by 23432
Atomic structure of the universe is not a mystery to you too ?
Actually, no. There are deep mysteries in other areas of physics, as well as nuance in the atomic model, but by and large we got it down cold.
I do seem to remember how ideas changed about the nature of the atom in last 100 years .
Science build a model. If new evidence comes along, the model gets changed.
Are you telling me that this current model is all that there is to it ?
No more changes in the future to nature of Atom ? Is that what you believe too ?
If yes , I am afraid I disagree .In all likely hood , what you got down cold in relation to Nature of Atom probably will change .
If Rodin learnt conventional physics , do you think he would of had a better understanding of what he doesn't currently understand ?
That's a possibility. Looking at videos from Rodin and reading his write-ups, I see that he doesn't understand much of anything, so taking some classes and getting a grade can't possibly make it worse.
Elephant in the dark room analogy comes to mind .
Or do you think he would still insist on Baha'i heritage of 9's to be represented in his model ?
We call something a "model" when it maps onto an entity and/or a process in what we call "reality". Rodin's sudoku does not. Waving hands and chanting "aetheric flux" does not a model make.
Reality is a subjective term , is it not ? In another reality , the physics have found a way to accept Aether perhaps .
I understand that you want to stick to a scientifically proven method to explain away what doesn't fit into what you understand to be solid facts .
Rodin doesn't want to play that game at all .
It's not a game. It's a thing called "reality". See Lewis Black's video I posted some time ago.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
reply to post by 23432
I don't care whether reality is a set of signals in my brain or something else. I'm speaking strictly in the sense that's something I can experience in an objective manner. I throw a stone, and it comes back down. I do a calculation for a transformer, build it, take a measurement, and guess what, it works as I designed it to work.
Originally posted by 23432
you do take this subject too seriously imho .
Rodin is as eccentric as it gets but he doesn't strike me as a fraud
Originally posted by 23432
Oh , I also have designed + built a thing or two that works .
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by 23432
you do take this subject too seriously imho .
Possibly! Then again, the motto of ATS is "deny ignorance".
Rodin is as eccentric as it gets but he doesn't strike me as a fraud
I already voiced my opinion that he's not a fraud. Just delusional