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I'm glad you think that was a helpful response because to me it feels like hitting brodix over the head with "you're not even wrong" repeatedly and then telling him to go read a book, like the other physicists say when they brush him off. Hence the 'ugh'.

The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jul 12th, 2009 at 05:21:58 PM EST
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no, to me it was more like you're tapping him on the shoulder, going, 'you need to fully understand X before you can race ahead and jump to conclusions about Y.'

but i went to the agonist to groove on possible further discussion of your mega comment, and it's not there.

°çéé&&%$!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Jul 12th, 2009 at 05:34:12 PM EST
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I'll sit with the guy and teach him general relativity from scratch - but I won't entertain a debate with a layperson on whether the standard cosmological model is "logical" in "common-sense" terms. It is not, period, and that doesn't tell you the theory is suspect, but common sense is flawed.

The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jul 12th, 2009 at 05:47:03 PM EST
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