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In reply to the discussion: Ten percent of American high-schoolers graduate without basic object permanence skills. [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)21. And god said:...
And God said:

And there was light!
Electricity is not a mystery. It hasn't been a mystery since Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, Carl Friedrich Gauss, André-Marie Ampére, Allassandro Volta, and, most importantly, James Clerk Maxwell whose four equations of electricity and magnetism are a synthesis of the work of the others is illustrated above.
Meanwhile, a second grade patent clerk in Switzerland simplified these four equations into two. This gave rise to two equations which not only were equivalent to the four, but opened up an entirely new physical interpretation which explained why the experiments were correct and previous theoretical interpretations were wrong.
This happened several times since, always preserving the previous equations as a partial solution. Prominent in this endeavor are Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, Stephen Weinberg, Frank Wilczek, among others.
All extended the science of Franklin, Gauss, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, Dirac, etc., and all the others who worked on the problem of what the fuck is electricity?
What humans (apparently not the folks and Conservapedia, or their followers) know about electricity, magnetism, light and the entire so-called electro-magnetic spectrum, is one thing, describable precisely by a simple equation, or set of equations (depending on your theoretical or physical viewpoint).
But these idiots claim that the Bible says that's all wrong.
Fuck these simpleton douche bags.

And there was light!
Electricity is not a mystery. It hasn't been a mystery since Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, Carl Friedrich Gauss, André-Marie Ampére, Allassandro Volta, and, most importantly, James Clerk Maxwell whose four equations of electricity and magnetism are a synthesis of the work of the others is illustrated above.
Meanwhile, a second grade patent clerk in Switzerland simplified these four equations into two. This gave rise to two equations which not only were equivalent to the four, but opened up an entirely new physical interpretation which explained why the experiments were correct and previous theoretical interpretations were wrong.
This happened several times since, always preserving the previous equations as a partial solution. Prominent in this endeavor are Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, Stephen Weinberg, Frank Wilczek, among others.
All extended the science of Franklin, Gauss, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, Dirac, etc., and all the others who worked on the problem of what the fuck is electricity?
What humans (apparently not the folks and Conservapedia, or their followers) know about electricity, magnetism, light and the entire so-called electro-magnetic spectrum, is one thing, describable precisely by a simple equation, or set of equations (depending on your theoretical or physical viewpoint).
But these idiots claim that the Bible says that's all wrong.
Fuck these simpleton douche bags.
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Ten percent of American high-schoolers graduate without basic object permanence skills. [View all]
backscatter712
Feb 2013
OP
Wow, Then Whether or Not the Light Stays On When You close the Frig. Door Must be Hell for Them.
dballance
Feb 2013
#6
The responses to this thread suggest a similar thing about satire awareness. (nt)
Posteritatis
Feb 2013
#7
On the bright side, if I scroll Rick off the screen, he ceases to exist!
backscatter712
Feb 2013
#12
and does she believe Russia still exists, if she isn't viewing it from her house?
bench scientist
Feb 2013
#15
How did they see Jesus then? With their third eye, huh? Yeah, it's satire, but remember this?
freshwest
Feb 2013
#17
When I started college back in the stone ages at the age of 18, it was written on the bathroom wall!
freshwest
Feb 2013
#23
When you read how Conservapedia blames the all powerful, evil liberals for everything,
freshwest
Feb 2013
#28
That figure seems really suspect to me. Object Permanence usually develops by 2-3 yo, because
patrice
Feb 2013
#32
She does... I spend the whole time she is "sneaking up" saying, "Where did Izzie go?"
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2013
#36