Robert I Ellison | April 26, 2012 at 2:13 am |
Only 30 years for you? But you’re so much older than I, and I started educating myself in special relativity almost ten years earlier than you. However, I can’t say we’re both moving certainly toward understanding at the speed of light.
‘C for Celerity’ was entertaining, but still a work of imagination. It’s fine to teach children some forms of fiction. Fiction can be a great source of education. Still, representing fiction as fact, or folk etymology (or manufactured debate) as science is obviously abusive to some.
Whereas ‘c’ for ‘constant’ is more pedestrian, and likelier true, given the documentary evidence and conventions of the day.Still, as it’s likelier true, we can present our evidence to schoolchildren and let them judge for themselves, without framing it as a controversy.
But to the point. No offense intended to Mr. Mosher, but he’s a marketer of some sort, not a physicist or engineer. (Or maybe he is, but that’s not the point. He’s pretty accomplished at marketing, and has been credited rightly with good service in climate science.) The point is with great educational and professional credentials come great expectation of responsibilities. I claim no credentials, which may account for my irresponsibility, but should’t fall below expectations on that account for that reason. You claim virtually all credentials, and so never cease to disappoint in that regard, where you fall below the threshold of, say, even spelling Asimov’s name right. I was simply pointing out how disappointing it is to see (especially with the ‘Blame Mosher’ excuse) so much inaccuracy under the title of ‘education and the art of uncertainty’.