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Subject: Re: more examples for search-based stupidity

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:55:20 06/15/98

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On June 15, 1998 at 08:24:44, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>>I think horse hockey is just about the right word for this
>>"mass-energy" nonsense.   It sounds really cool but has no
>>substance.
>>
>>- Don
>
>If you have energy , or an idea, you can make mass out of it.
>If you have energy, or an idea, but you are a bean counter, you will
>fail.
>
>Materialist rely on mass because they can measure it. And they can catch
>it.
>They need to see it. Because they don't believe.
>They put the mass into a safe. To make it saver. To prove it better.
>Because they have no freedom. And no creativity.
>
>In the end they measure, prove, and feel good with making statistics
>about the weight.
>
>If you call energy or an idea
>"no substance"  you make a big mistake.
>Nothing is more dangerous than an idea or energy.
>Therefore the materialists always try to: don't change. Let us do it
>like we have always done it. It's saver !
>Never change !
>
>Any society will learn that conservatism is no value at all.


your metaphor is useless.  I also know how to measure "energy".  And
I know all about the laws governing conservation of mass and energy.
And if you insist on this metaphor, I'll refer you to any recent physics
book, which will show you that mass and energy are *identical*.  Hence
the famous E=MC^2 formulation by you-know-who.

So, following your metaphor, you can't any more with energy than I can
do with mass, because I know how to convert my mass to equivalent
energy, although no one really knows how to go the other way yet...

But the two concepts are *identical* which is what I have been saying
all along.  tactics and positional chess are simply two different ways
to arrive at the same point.  One is more error-prone than the other.



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