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Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Forum for Physics Educators
| [mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Tarara
| Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:23 AM
| To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
| Subject: Re: earthquakes +- critical thinking
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Rauber, Joel" <Joel.Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>
| To: <PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU>
| Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:18 AM
| Subject: Re: earthquakes +- critical thinking
|
|
| >| David's argument is tantamount to stating that it is categorically
| > | impossible for some small stimulus often repeated to
| avoid or defuse
| > | some very large effect, This is so open to counter-example
| > | that I will not
| > | need to list such out of scale cause and effect scenarios.
| >
| > I don't understand the objections, I don't think David B.
| was saying
| > that bunches of small effects can't be equivalent to one
| large effect.
| > His objection, as I understood it, was merely being
| sceptical of the
| > number of small effects that were said to be equivalent of the big
| > effect in question.
| >
|
| But the point is not whether 100 magnitude-3 earthquakes have
| the energy equivalent to a magnitude-9 earthquake, but rather
| can 100 small earthquakes prevent a large one. To that
| point, Joe Bellina's post is probably quite relevant.
|
| Rick
|
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