Common Characteristics of Cranks - Wikipedia
1. Cranks overestimate their own knowledge and ability, and underestimate that of acknowledged experts.
CHECK, HE'S A PRODIGY.
2. Cranks insist that their alleged discoveries are urgently important.
SEMI-CHECK.
3. Cranks rarely, if ever, acknowledge any error, no matter how trivial.
OR JUST IGNORE EVERYTHING, CHECK.
4. Cranks love to talk about their own beliefs, often in inappropriate social situations, but they tend to be bad listeners, and often appear to be uninterested in anyone else's experience or opinions.
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5. Seriously misunderstand the mainstream opinion to which they believe that they are objecting.
CHECK.
6. Stress that they have been working out their ideas for many decades, and claim that this fact alone entails that their belief cannot be dismissed as resting upon some simple error.
SEMI-CHECK.
7. Compare themselves with Galileo or Copernicus, implying that the mere unpopularity of some belief is in itself evidence of plausibility.
NO CHECK, BUT EINSTEIN IS AN IDIOT.
8. Claim that their ideas are being suppressed, typically by secret intelligence organizations, mainstream science, powerful business interests, or other groups which, they allege, are terrified by the possibility of their revolutionary insights becoming widely known.
DEFINITELY CHECK.
9. Appear to regard themselves as persons of unique historical importance.
EPIC CHECK.
10. Exhibit a marked lack of technical ability.
UNEQUIVOCAL CHECK.
11. Misunderstand or fail to use standard notation and terminology.
CHECK, CHECK, CHECK.
12. Ignore fine distinctions which are essential to correctly understand mainstream belief.
CHECK.
Ooh, and
13. Some cranks exhibit a lack of academic achievement, in which case they typically assert that academic training in the subject of their crank belief is not only unnecessary for discovering "the truth", but actively harmful because they believe it "poisons" the minds by teaching falsehoods.
CHECK.
Congratulations, you obtained an extremely high score!
Well, that was fun, but let's continue swinging a sledgehammer at that incredible bubble of yours. You really are a fascinating case study.
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Philosopher8659
If you were well versed even in set theory
Well versed in set theory, hmmm...
Okay. There are 1,000 numbered boxes, each containing a piece of paper with the same number as the box on it. The pieces of paper are taken out, shuffled, and replaced in individual boxes at random. How many ways of there of doing this so that no piece of paper ends up in its original box (e.g. paper 500 back in box 500)?
This can be established very quickly and easily with basic set theory. Have fun!
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Now I have presented you with a document that made an ass out of the Cartesian Coordinate System by paralleling Algebra with figures without it. It contains a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem covering every triangle, solves the Delian Problem, Points to the correct reconstruction of geometry based on set theory, demonstrates exponential manipulation, which has been claimed not to be exampled geometrically, shown the path to multiplication and division of linear segments straight on, and you, are still whinning.
That says everything. If your mind thinks by rote genetically, no amount of communication can make you advanced enough to think by definition. It is in your psych books. Extrememly high IQ people think by definition, unlike even normal genius. This is why Plato was never understood. You cannot talk someone into being something they are not. However, even you have imagination, so try to get back to the original topic, one more time.
Yes yes, I'm well aware that having a low IQ allows for a freer mind and hence your incredible genius, well done you.
However, I believe the original topic was whether or not Euclidean geometry is correct or not. I'm confused as to why you are telling me to get on topic after an entire post of ad hominems, self-praise, and so-vague-it's-meaningless philosophy, which you could instead have spent addressing the concise set of questions I asked you in the previous post which were directly about your original post. The only answer I can think is that you are unable to answer them, and that your reaction is a basic reaction of self-misdirection so as to doublethink yourself into denial. Brilliant!
1. How can you establish that a set of a posteriori truths (in this case geometries) are correct without actually investigating reality?
For example, you claim that we live in R^3; three dimensional Euclidean space. As an example of your answer, please explain to me how you could establish that we inhabit R^3 and not R^2 or some other dimension without investigating reality, but rather from a priori principles.
2. Following from the previous point: do you really think there is a tiny magical man inside GPSs? If Euclidean geometry is so perfect, how come when we try and use it we get results that are wrong, whilst when we try to use general relativity we get results that are correct?
3. What is the flaw in the established proof that the Delian problem is impossible?
4. What was your methodology for creating your proof? How did you know you were going in the right direction?
5. How in brief does your proof establish that you have doubled the cube? You directed me to the appendix at one point, but I trawled through that and I found no reference to any kind of method of proof there. The final result is a formula using the symbols N1 to N4, the relevance of which is not stated.
6. Where is the proof and final result for your generalisation of the Pythagorean theorem? / state the result here.
7. Precisely what proposition do you think you are disproving when you talk about geometric exponentiation? Precisely what are you claiming to have achieved, and precisely where have you achieved it?