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RE: Why Does Homeschooling Still Have a Stigma?

in Home Edders4 years ago

Perhaps the most powerful position is being able to say, "I don't know." We are long past the time when one individual could conceivably grasp the entirety of human knowledge. Specialization means advanced fields are closed off to those who have nor dedicated their entire lives to understanding them.

Is Einstein's relativity theory an accurate description of physics? I don't know. I'll assume so, while acknowledging it could all be wrong. After all, the body of scientific knowledge is constantly being refined and revised in light if new information, and even if Einstein is right, that doesn't mean his model won't be superceded by something better one day.

Is COVID-19 even real? Is it a deadly plague or an overblown media-driven excuse for a political power grab? I don't know. I'll assume it exists while rejecting most of the fearmongering and acknowledge that I am not an epidemiologist or virologist.

The real danger lies with those who use their feeling of certainty regarding complex subjects to justify aggression.

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Personally, I think the most powerful position is "hold on a minute, it's actually a bit more complicated." People like simple explanations and simple solutions because they've been conditioned to think in simple terms.

Science works in terms of taking old knowledge, throwing out what doesn't work, and replacing it with something new that reconciles the problems with the old knowledge. Newtonian mechanics, for instance, hasn't been thrown out as much as it has been built upon by Relativity, a necessity that became apparent because the perturbations in Mercury's orbit weren't consistent within the constraints of the old system. Relativity doesn't explain everything, and at least in physics, I know that Big Bang Cosmology and Quantum Electro Dynamics are incompatible, ergo only one, at most, can be true in its entirety. The reason that both BBC and QED are still used is simply that they both work for their respective fields.

Unfortunately, hot-button topics are always going to be meddled in by those who have a political agenda to push. Any real science that is inconvenient to the narrative is shut down. However, the composition of the sun's surface doesn't fall into that category, which is why Pierre-Marie Robitaille is unlikely to be silenced by either the legacy media or silicon valley, despite the controversy surrounding him in smaller circles... unless, of course, internet censorship is ever automated in the way that former Goolag CEO Eric Schmidt (it's always the f^ck!ng Germans) once proposed.

Is Einstein's relativity theory an accurate description of physics? I don't know. I'll assume so, while acknowledging it could all be wrong. After all, the body of scientific knowledge is constantly being refined and revised in light if new information, and even if Einstein is right, that doesn't mean his model won't be superceded by something better one day.

I just made a post about this. https://hive.blog/hive-123046/@builderofcastles/einstein-vs-tesla-the-time-has-come-for-the-truth-to-be-shown

And it's an important part of this.

Everything i learned in college science class, i later learned was wrong. EVERYTHING!

So, i appreciate your ability to change your mind.
However, i have shown that the theory of relativity is wrong, disproven, goes completely against observable reality. Sooooo, what does it actually take to change your mind?

What most people do, is say, i don't know. But i can't deny the authorities that taught me this stuff (garbage.)

Further, the laws of the universe are really simple.
Or the better term is simplex.
Each individual law is really easy, but the combinations of them are really mind blowing.
And so, people in the future will each have a very good understanding of physics.

Honestly, the validity or invalidity of relativity theory has zero impact on my day-to-day life, and I do not have a deep interest in the subject. I haven't pursued the requisite information to weigh the validity of your post versus mainstream science. I just don't know, so I only provisionally accept anything on the topic.

Oh but it does.
Down one road, you are left in a world that is controlled by power (oil companies, electric companies, or what not)
Down the other, you are in a world of free energy and peace on earth.

I comprehend your position.
There are few people who can grok the Theory of Relativity.
There are even fewer who can go beyond and see the holes in it.
(and here i am asking you to understand it enough to know the holes i put into it)

But, what i want people to know is that the "Theory of Relativity" is not the only thing.
It is a pattern that has been done to science over and over again.
In the near future, modern science text books will be used for door stops, if not discarded forthwith.