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army1987 comments on Open thread, July 16-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 July 2013 04:30:22PM 1 point [-]

How much do you know about general relativity? (This is a honest question BTW -- I know the postulates behind it and some of the maths, but I've never studied its implications in detail, besides the Schwarzschild metric and the FLRW metric, so I have trouble telling the levels above mine apart.)

Comment author: Thomas 21 July 2013 05:16:10PM -1 points [-]

I will pass the discussion about this here, I hope you understand that.

But please, fell free to engage me there, on my blog.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 July 2013 05:59:59PM 1 point [-]

I'm afraid I'm not knowledgeable enough for that -- I can't tell whether non-trivial claims about GR are valid any more reliably than by noticing whether or not the person who made them sounds like a crackpot.

Comment author: Thomas 22 July 2013 08:57:53PM 0 points [-]

Yes, this Relativity an Quantum Mechanics debates usually ends like this: "I have not enough knowledge, but it seems you don't have it either ..."

Is this a reason to avoid them? Maybe not.

But this is why I decided to also write about that planet rotation thing. Where the scene is very transparent. Thousands of top experts have no clue.