User:Roadrunner

Trying to keep from getting eaten by Wile E Coyote......

Pretty easy job really as Wile E's pretty stupid and usually ends up at the bottom of a ravine.

There are real creatures in Arizona called Roadrunners, who presumbably are eaten by coyotes...

Seen the revert? That's what happens when you admit you're a layman; your opinion, even about laymen!, is completely dismissed. Physicists are the most arrogant sons of bitches imaginable. -- Ark

When talking about laypeople, you're projecting your own ignorance and beliefs onto them. That's what happens when you can't see a group (laypeople) as individual human beings with their own particular thoughts. Instead, they're just projections of you. So you get the situation where I'm not allowed to have any thoughts except the ones that you yourself believe, or once believed, or still secretly believe.

I'm supposed to believe there are hidden variables more fundamental than waves because you're still struggling against that belief. In fact, I'm supposed to have proposed a hidden-variables theory (what the fuck?) because you'd like to propose one. I'm supposed to believe in absolute position and momentum because you still believe in it. You hardly know anything about me and you still prejudge me so badly. How badly are you going to prejudge people you know nothing about?

Here's a hypothesis for you: the belief that laypeople care about hidden-variables is a massive delusional projection shared by students of physics. -- Ark (yes, a study of psych does help you understand the human mind)

 We know that you’re arrogant. Why not put something autobiographical in the profile? What’s your area of expertise, for instance? 

--172

The only thing I care to reveal about myself is that I am a subscriber to Time Warner Roadrunner.

I've never been a believer of argument by authority and wikipedia makes this unnecessary. You can figure out my areas of expertise by the text of my postings.

Are the above comments the ramblings of an evil, egotistical physics student or physicist?

172-most of us can't reveal info about ourselves for fear of the IAO. Vera Cruz

What nonsense. -- Zoe

Interesting commentary on this page. 172 makes interesting points about what are "laymen". I have my own area of expertise and often talk about laymen. 172 has at least awakened me to possible errors in doing so. Cool comments!

But that's not why i'm here.

Roadrunner,

I abandoned the discussion of naming conventions re japanese emperors. It became too heated for me, and i realized there were many people working on both sides of the debate who were much more knowledgeable than me.

So, I'm still out of that debate. But I saw your recent long post and want to say that it was very nice. Nicely written. Thoughtful. Respectful of others.

Good job! Arthur 20:00 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC)

Hey, RR.. do us a favor and sign *each little talk entry you make, especially if you decide to keep cutting in.... A simple --RR is good enough, it doesnt have to be a sig... Be well.
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