derekmcd":s16oyci7 said:
I wish I had more time to invest. Sadly, I do not.
DrRocket, on the other hand, invested a considerable amount of time into this thread trying to share his knowledge. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to make your knowledge make sense to active participants. Quite often, terms are used that are not understood. Google is your friend. Books are your fiends. If you still don't get it... ask follow up questions.
What I see in this thread is no desire to learn anything... it has become a thread to just toss around random thoughts with no real knowledge of physics or cosmology.
DrRocket said as much in a previous post by mentioning the "Unexplained" forum... He gets jumped on.
The point of the physics forums is to ask questions and learn... propose ideas and accept critique based on mainstream knowledge. If you don't like the answers to the questions or the critiques to your ideas, then you should move on to another forum that accepts 'willy nilly' ideas...
DrRocket did not instigate any bad attitudes here. I see that he went out of his way to share what knowledge he has. I won't speak for DrRocket, but I sense his frustration in that no one really tried to follow up on what he was sharing... there was no attempt at learning.
My point is that there is plenty of nonsense that gets discussed in these threads, and that one should take a (so what? ) attitude. It's not like we are deciding the fate of the world here. DrRocket takes this stuff way to seriously, to the point of berating the uninformed, like they broke some universal law, and must be punished severely for doing so. So rather than letting a thread die on it's own accord, it turns into a trading of insults, with maybe a sprinkle of on topic discussion in between.
I read a post by DrRocket a few weeks ago that was spot on dead perfect in an explanation, and couldn't have said it any better, and thats about all you can do, meanwhile somebody wants to put a slant on it, and D.R. is taking it as a personal insult if you do.
I can guarantee that in the future, there will be more dumb questions, more idiotic theories, more speculation on these boards. I would hope that these discussions will be for those that wish to discuss, while others ignore these threads entirely for lack of value. If a couple members wish to discuss Bugs Bunny as the sixth dimension -
So What!
Either join in
Or just ignore it as the pithiest thing you can do.