Re: Do Not Feed the Troll

[Pentcho Valev <valevp@BAS.BG>]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:01:48 -0400, Ken Caviness <caviness@SOUTHERN.EDU>
wrote:

> Quoting Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>:
>
> > Not a good idea unless one can slay him.
> >
> > Ken is a new member since our last bout w/ PV?
> >
> > bc, who agrees Ken's excellent comment will only encourage.
> >
> > John Denker wrote:
> >
> > > http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/valevfaq.htm
>
>
> Bernard,
>
> No, not new, just misguided, I'm afraid.  If we took the trouble to search
the
> phys-l archives we could find the PV's last foray into relativity.  There,
too,
> I took the bait.  I apologize to the serious members of this forum for
> having "fed the troll".
>
> My motives, of course, were excellent.  PV's comments and the website he
> directed us to were full of errors.  Some readers might think that our
silence
> meant we accepted these views.  Seems to me that that was my thinking last
> time, too.  Hmmm.
>
> But it takes a certain amount of time to compose a message pointing out the
> errors.  It takes time to read the message -- for those who do! -- a great
many
> person-hours at least partly (*) wasted.
>
> (* There is certainly some value in re-examining our models,



Not in relativity. Here the tradition is to obey principles like the
following one:

"That we may in all things attain the truth, that we may not err in
anything, we ought ever to hold it a fixed principle, that what I see white
I believe to be black if the Romish Church define it so to be".

Pentcho Valev