Soggy
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Midnight Star:So your saying that they can't understand, or rationalize something like theoretical physics when it's explained to them? I wonder who explained it to them? Or, that because they don't immediately understand scientific terminology they can't grasp it's meaning, and apply it in new and creative ways? Does education really equal intelligence? It seems that in many of the postlings in this thread, intelligence is deliberately measured by understanding terminology: do I really need to use that term, when I can simply explain what I mean? That seems to protective to me for some reason ... i'm not sure why.
That's a lot of questions, but it is unlikely that someone with a low level of understanding (like me, or you) will come up with new and creative ideas on how to apply relativistic concepts from thin air without a substantial background in it. That's not intelligence, that is education.
Yes, I know Einstein was working as a patent clerk...there are exceptions.
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