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It's as if all the stupid in the world got together to compare poundcake recipes and collapsed into a supremely dense neutron star. The star rotates rapidly, emitting intense pulses of idiocy at predictable intervals. Caution advised: the stupidity, it burns.
When I was around 5 (I'm sure you're dying to know this), I knew that clouds moved and that the Earth rotated. One day, it dawned on me that the reason clouds moved was that the Earth was rotating under them.
I revealed this deep insight to my parents, who were impressed, but then asked me why the direction and speed of the clouds' movement varied.
Here, we have a grown man using approximately the same logic to decide that the Earth is the center of the universe.
The difference is that when confronted with contrary evidence, I, a five year old, decided that my hypothesis was wrong, whereas Malcolm, here, does not consider that a possibility.
Here's a sample:
"How can the universe rotate so rapidly without disintegrating? ... Ernst Mach proposed that it is the weight of the stars circling the earth that drags Foucault pendulums around, creates Coriolis forces in the air that give the cyclones to our weather ... Thus, there is evidence that the earth is NOT moving around the sun, but either the aether is moving around the earth carrying the planets with it, or the earth is spinning on its axis. The most likely model is that the aether is rotating around the earth as calculations show that if it did not, it would rapidly collapse upon itself." [Emphasis mine to point out similarities between Malcolm's and my 5-year-old-self's hypotheses.]
And here is a discussion of this topic. A discussion. Of this. Topic.
I really need to work on these masochistic tendencies of mine.
I'm noticing a lot of my posts lately fall under the criticism tag. Tsk, I really shouldn't get so worked up over these things.
It's as if all the stupid in the world got together to compare poundcake recipes and collapsed into a supremely dense neutron star. The star rotates rapidly, emitting intense pulses of idiocy at predictable intervals. Caution advised: the stupidity, it burns.
When I was around 5 (I'm sure you're dying to know this), I knew that clouds moved and that the Earth rotated. One day, it dawned on me that the reason clouds moved was that the Earth was rotating under them.
I revealed this deep insight to my parents, who were impressed, but then asked me why the direction and speed of the clouds' movement varied.
Here, we have a grown man using approximately the same logic to decide that the Earth is the center of the universe.
The difference is that when confronted with contrary evidence, I, a five year old, decided that my hypothesis was wrong, whereas Malcolm, here, does not consider that a possibility.
Here's a sample:
"How can the universe rotate so rapidly without disintegrating? ... Ernst Mach proposed that it is the weight of the stars circling the earth that drags Foucault pendulums around, creates Coriolis forces in the air that give the cyclones to our weather ... Thus, there is evidence that the earth is NOT moving around the sun, but either the aether is moving around the earth carrying the planets with it, or the earth is spinning on its axis. The most likely model is that the aether is rotating around the earth as calculations show that if it did not, it would rapidly collapse upon itself." [Emphasis mine to point out similarities between Malcolm's and my 5-year-old-self's hypotheses.]
And here is a discussion of this topic. A discussion. Of this. Topic.
I really need to work on these masochistic tendencies of mine.
I'm noticing a lot of my posts lately fall under the criticism tag. Tsk, I really shouldn't get so worked up over these things.