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Old 12-03-2010, 04:29 PM
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"'if I have seen further it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants", twas originally quoted by Newton wasn't it?
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It's interesting how interpretations change with time.
Initailly seen as a humble statement, Newton's remark is now interpreted as a personal attack on Robert Hooke who was short and had a stooped posture.

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"'if I have seen further it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants", twas originally quoted by Newton wasn't it?
Both Maxwell and Einstein made the same comment.

It is fairly standard to say this if you find yourself in the glare of the media. That way you do not come over as a pratt.

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I cannot help the fact that most people are pratts. I am a bit like the bishop decrying miniskirts who said and I quote ' I prefer to think of things a little higher.'

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I didn't know that...but it does make some sense, as Newton - according to historical reports - was anything but humble. A personality not unlike that cartoon baby in Trevor's avatar.

Mind-you, even Einstein had a dark side. My tutor told me a story about when he was a student of Astrophysics at Cambridge. He said that while he was translating Einstein's 'Theory of General Relativity' and earlier 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' from German into English he found some amazing pieces in the math...in that he had almost entirely used the work of Maxwell and Lorentz. No big deal, that's normal, BUT, the Germans never, ever taught 'The British' version of electromagnetism...the Germans had their own version which worked very well thank-you. Einstein always said that he was reading those works after hours and that his critics were not justified in their attack of his use of them...but there were other, annomolies which didn't add-up. Later, when the British wanted to get an official translation done of Einstein's works, my tutor said to save the one million pounds allocated for the transcription as it had already been done...but later, once it had been transcribed and released to the general public, the anomolies were corrected. He showed me his transcripts and that of the official ones, but for the life of me I couldn't see what the differences represented...GR is just to damn hard at the nuts & bolts level. But for him, at that time when he was a student, he said he walked around his room, campus and streets pondering why Einstein had done that. So his view on Einstein, which was originally that of a God, afterward was two-fold; the greatest Genius while at the same time being a compulsive liar...although Bohm, on the other hand, whom he worked with for many years, was that of a Saint.

Ergo my comment to him, "seems there's more politics in science than there is science"..."you better believe it boy-o" was his response.

I gotta retire and go and study I think.
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Both Maxwell and Einstein made the same comment.

It is fairly standard to say this if you find yourself in the glare of the media. That way you do not come over as a pratt.

Bert

I didn't know that (nor do I believe it), and my rolling face was at your "death sentence" comment, not your quote.

But since we're talking about pratts, I can't help thinking that your avatar resembles that of a mirror, to which your high powered observations are reflecting upon.

Tit-for-pratt!

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Anyway. Neither really one or lost in the philosophical sense. Electricity is generated as DC, turned into AC for transmission, and then 'transformed' back to DC by your home appliances.[/QUOTE]

Electricity is generated as AC. Rotating magnetic field will always produce AC current.
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