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I write "those experiments have a different (less rigorous) scientific basis than physics" and you read that as I "want to dismiss the...
Apr 28, 2024
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Words must mean different things to us! "Hands-on knowledge" is not experimentation. Dissection is not experimentation; it is...
Apr 28, 2024
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> experimental work in medicine, psychology, biology, materials science, Medical education does NOT involve experimentation; I know: I...
Apr 28, 2024
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This is how: Physics (also chemistry) is different from all other subjects (I have an undergrad degree in physics and another in math, a...
Apr 28, 2024
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Yes, I must be ignorant about how teaching works after having taught at the university level since 1979 at three different universities...
Apr 28, 2024
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Thank you for your advice, and for the time you took to engage me. We have obviously reached the end of this particular line. However, I...
Apr 28, 2024
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I made a generalization, and like every other generalization, there are exceptions. I am not commenting on the teaching ability of...
Apr 28, 2024
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I never said or implied that in teaching the role of the Lorentz factor in Special Relativity, the ONLY thing that matters is its...
Apr 28, 2024
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Neither. I mean deriving the mathematical expression for the Lorentz factor geometrically in one minute using Pythagoras' Theorem.
Apr 28, 2024
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Maybe this question will clarify my point (which is not about popularizing physics but about teaching it deeply): Regarding the Lorentz...
Apr 28, 2024
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Thank you for your explanation. You sound like there is perfect consensus amongst professional physicists who read only peer-reviewed...
Apr 28, 2024
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Correct. I should have said, "common logical sense" by which I mean LUCIDITY in explanation vs. shoving an equation down someone's...
Apr 28, 2024
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That doesn’t explain ANYthing?! So if I gave that explanation of how we hear sound to people from 1,000 years ago (or to the children of...
Apr 28, 2024
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What is wrong with videos? A video is a medium through which information can be communicated. If I transcribed the contents of the same...
Apr 27, 2024
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References provided for Frabjous regarding controversies and disagreements in explaining how EM waves travel in vacuum...
Apr 27, 2024
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