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Originally Posted by Damo2600
Which makes complete understandable sense to the totally confused beginner.
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You may find this comment harsh, but at least he is right!
Sorry, but I agree with Tormud. You don't understand what you are trying to teach. This is made worse by my (fairly advanced) understanding of the subject.
I understand quite a lot of advanced physics, and have little difficulty getting to grips with the concepts of time dilation, frames of reference, energy conversion, etc. but then I did a 4 year degree, after years of study at school and home, and have been on the cutting edge of science for years. However, the maths is still beyond me.
I am not good at tensor calculus.
Therefore I would not try to explain it to another. (I might show them MathCAD however!)
I will happily explain the basics of any subject to the interested observer, but only if I am sure that they will get it, and that I know what I am telling is correct.
(I recall trying to explain what I was doodling to a B&B owner, she was about 80, and remembered the war. She was sharp and lucid, but in trying to explain the first symbol, we came unstuck. E. So I dropped back and explained that it was a contraction of "times ten to the power of". Still no good. So I dropped back to the idea of raising to the power. Still nothing. So I explained basic multiplication to her, and worked from there. Once we had a common place to stand, we could work in the right direction.)
Note that I mark my theories as such.
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Originally Posted by Damo2600
Thanks for adding to this thread Infamous (edit: Uncle Al I mean. Sorry Infamous) .
Josephine
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Uncle Al is pretty infamous! I think it is the dislike of liberals, and his great way with words.
