It's not semantics Jesus Christ There is no privileged frame of reference, do you understand what that sentence means
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Replying to @arthur_affect @izs and
What do you believe to be Einstein's thoughts on the relations between the earth and the sun?
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @izs and
I believe he understood that there was no privileged frame of reference and that one could imagine either the Earth or the Sun as a fixed point if one so chose That's literally what that means
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
Indeed general relativity, with its almost trollish insistence that there is no distinction between acceleration and gravitation, depends on "radical copernicanism" (not only are we not the center of the universe, it has no center, and therefore everything is the center)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @izs and
Your wording here says a lot: Einstein was pretty "trollish" for copernicanism. Happens that consistency of perspective, rather than silly pretzeling for different ways of knowing, is quite productive. Good luck attempting to foster a woke world that dismantles consistencies.
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @izs and
Okay so you clearly don't actually understand what I was talking about
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
And actually you owned yourself here too, because Einstein's great downfall in later life was his absolute refusal to "wrap his mind around" the "other way of knowing" represented by quantum mechanics and being humiliatingly proven wrong by experiment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
The apparent inconsistency between relativity and quantum physics - the lack of a single "way of knowing" that works at all scales for all things, a "Theory of Everything" - is famously the status quo in physics Sorry if you don't like it but science is not about your feelings
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Replying to @arthur_affect @izs and
"Sorry if you don't like it but science is not about your feelings." Well done. Also, 2 + 2 = 4.
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @izs and
Sometimes, when you put two grams of something with another two grams of something, you get five grams
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And your yelling about how this offends you aesthetically and you hate the shitty busted measuring device you're using and you deserve to have Platonic knowledge of the true mass of all things to infinite sigfigs is just feelings and it's not the important thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and
I'll disagree with you there - I actually find feelings to be enormously important, and something that should be taken seriously in political and academic discussions. Meaning comes from feelings after all. But as always, we have to know what we're talking about.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Aya62335284 and
Well THIS GUY'S feelings in particular are just very annoying
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