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Originally Posted by questor

do you think that a premise that can't be explained and understood in a few sentences will change your life?

Have General Relativity and Cosmology changed your life? Or the Standard Model of particle physics?

Originally Posted by Doctordick

Now that is an out and out joke! If your mind is so limited that you can come up with no better reason for not listening to logic than that, I sincerely pity you. By the way, as an aside, I believe that is called an “ad hominem argument”; something I thought this forum discuraged.

Now perhaps that could be called tit for tat, or perhaps his wasn't even ad hominem because it wasn't an attempt to refute your position but instead mainly just criticism of your efforts to comunicate it?

Originally Posted by ldsoftwaresteve

Hmm. I think DoctorDick has something important that he's trying to get across. We can have all kinds of rhetoric to the contrary but it won't change my mind.

I think his problem is at the very least one of being unable to get it across. I'm still not sure whether or not what he's trying to get across actually is worthy. It could be interesting if it were. Partly it seems to be a generalization of what I already saw in my theoretical physics course, i. e. arriving at the Dirac equation from general symmetry considerations, but his claim is to do something more extended than this which would be interesting, and I still don't know how his definitions lead to his fundamental equation.

Originally Posted by ldsoftwaresteve

And that strikes at the term, 'rational'. If our perception is faulty, how rational are we?

I disagree, rational doesn't necessarily mean faithfully representing reality. One can be highly rational about totally hypothetical or imaginary things.