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I just don't get it

Lila Belle — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:33:26 GMT

I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?

Re: I just don't get it

Marp — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:38:58 GMT

The board is populated mostly by humans. There are a few felines but their postings are really confusing lol.

Re: I just don't get it

reiki604 — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:39:44 GMT

Facts? Who needs stinking facts? My belief and opinions supercedes any provable facts. LOL!

Re: I just don't get it

missy1 — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:45:19 GMT

It's not a debate board.

Re: I just don't get it

nunya — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:47:26 GMT

I don't even try to get it. Some people are just set in their opinions and nothing will change that.

Re: I just don't get it

Mominohio — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:48:14 GMT

Well, facts are funny things.

Like asking on here, what the temperature in San Diego is this morning. There is probably more than one right answer. If you are in the heart of the city, it will be higher than the outskirts. If you live in a valley or on a hill, in the shade of a lot of trees, or surrounded my lots of buildings and asphalt, all will have different actual readings on their thermometers.

Take any given science, and the 'facts' are constantly disputed, evolving, and changing. And at any given period of time, we can look back at what were once considered 'facts' and they have now been disgarded, upgraded, or changed.

Most 'facts' are found being supported by other 'facts', disputed by another camps 'facts' and subject to interpretaion. You will have large bodies of supportive evidence on two or more sides of just about any 'fact'.

And I love that people continue to offer up different ( and even 'wrong') input. It always gives food for thought, can lead one to think about something differently than they might have otherwise, and keeps people on their toes to do their own research and thinking about 'the facts'.

Re: I just don't get it

Lila Belle — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:54:01 GMT

@NUNYA wrote:
I don't even try to get it. Some people are just set in their opinions and nothing will change that.

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They sure are !

Re: I just don't get it

CrazyDaisy — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:56:10 GMT

@Lila Belle wrote:
I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?

Even gravity is a theory (cannot be proven why or how), so exactly what are facts.

Re: I just don't get it

KingstonsMom — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:04:44 GMT

I think many times a poster may respond, obviously not having read the entire thread.

Leaves me SMH too sometimes.

Re: I just don't get it

Lila Belle — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:08:12 GMT

@CrazyDaisy wrote:
@Lila Belle wrote:
I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?
Even gravity is a theory (cannot be proven why or how), so exactly what are facts.

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Try reading Einstein re: general relativity. : )

Re: I just don't get it

ChynnaBlue — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:07:13 GMT

@Lila Belle wrote:
I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?

That's how people work and it happens everywhere from forums, to meetings, to dinners with friends.

Re: I just don't get it

milkbone — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:08:41 GMT

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I just don't get it

‎12-14-2015 09:33 AM

I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?

# LoveWins

Its called..... CYBER BULLYING

We teach it to our kids intentionally, and play naive when school kids get ABUSED :-(

Monkey see...monkey do !!!!

Re: I just don't get it

JustJazzmom — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:09:08 GMT

Re: I just don't get it

curlywhitedog — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:14:28 GMT

@Lila Belle wrote:
I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?

I've often wondered the same thing. If the post is asking for opinions then I get the continued responses but if it's a question that's been answered then we don't need it to be answered a hundred times.

I think part of the problem is that once a thread starts to get long posters no longer read the answers and instead just post their answer. Still, seems kind of pointless, doesn't it?

Maria

Re: I just don't get it

StarryNight — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:14:50 GMT

My favorite are the "Google it!" idiots with nothing of value to contribute except for "Google it!". Please stop embarrassing yourselves with this response.

Re: I just don't get it

CrazyDaisy — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:16:06 GMT

@Lila Belle wrote:
@CrazyDaisy wrote:
@Lila Belle wrote:
I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?
Even gravity is a theory (cannot be proven why or how), so exactly what are facts.
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Try reading Einstein re: general relativity. : )

Einstiens THEORY OF RELATIVITY is used to explain why things fall. Again exactly what are facts.

Re: I just don't get it

JustJazzmom — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:23:50 GMT

@CrazyDaisy wrote:
@Lila Belle wrote:
@CrazyDaisy wrote:
@Lila Belle wrote:
I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?
Even gravity is a theory (cannot be proven why or how), so exactly what are facts.
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Try reading Einstein re: general relativity. : )
Einstiens THEORY OF RELATIVITY is used to explain why things fall. Again exactly what are facts.

From this website:http://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html

In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers. This was the theory of special relativity. It introduced a new framework for all of physics and proposed new concepts of space and time.

Einstein then spent 10 years trying to include acceleration in the theory and published his theory of general relativity in 1915. In it, he determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.

The tug of gravity

Two objects exert a force of attraction on one another known as "gravity." Sir Isaac Newton quantified the gravity between two objects when he formulated his three laws of motion. The force tugging between two bodies depends on how massive each one is and how far apart the two lie. Even as the center of the Earth is pulling you toward it (keeping you firmly lodged on the ground), your center of mass is pulling back at the Earth. But the more massive body barely feels the tug from you, while with your much smaller mass you find yourself firmly rooted thanks to that same force. Yet Newton's laws assume that gravity is an innate force of an object that can act over a distance.

Albert Einstein, in his theory of special relativity, determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and he showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels. As a result, he found that space and time were interwoven into a single continuum known as space-time. Events that occur at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another.

As he worked out the equations for his general theory of relativity, Einstein realized that massive objects caused a distortion in space-time. Imagine setting a large body in the center of a trampoline. The body would press down into the fabric, causing it to dimple. A marble rolled around the edge would spiral inward toward the body, pulled in much the same way that the gravity of a planet pulls at rocks in space.

You might be thinking of Gallileo and his Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment where he demonstrated how objects fall equally.

Re: I just don't get it

KingstonsMom — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:28:47 GMT

@milkbone wrote:
@Lila Belle
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‎12-14-2015 09:33 AM
I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?
# LoveWins

Its called..... CYBER BULLYING

We teach it to our kids intentionally, and play naive when school kids get ABUSED :-(

Monkey see...monkey do !!!!

Huh?

Re: I just don't get it

CrazyDaisy — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:33:11 GMT

@JustJazzmom wrote:
@CrazyDaisy wrote:
@Lila Belle wrote:
@CrazyDaisy wrote:
@Lila Belle wrote:
I've wondered about this since I've started reading and posting on this forum.

A question for factual information is asked and answered. But posts keep coming giving incorrect responses or just somebody's opinion of what the anwer should be.

What's up with that ?
Even gravity is a theory (cannot be proven why or how), so exactly what are facts.
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Try reading Einstein re: general relativity. : )
Einstiens THEORY OF RELATIVITY is used to explain why things fall. Again exactly what are facts.
From this website:http://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html

In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers. This was the theory of special relativity. It introduced a new framework for all of physics and proposed new concepts of space and time.
Einstein then spent 10 years trying to include acceleration in the theory and published his theory of general relativity in 1915. In it, he determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.
The tug of gravity
Two objects exert a force of attraction on one another known as "gravity." Sir Isaac Newton quantified the gravity between two objects when he formulated his three laws of motion. The force tugging between two bodies depends on how massive each one is and how far apart the two lie. Even as the center of the Earth is pulling you toward it (keeping you firmly lodged on the ground), your center of mass is pulling back at the Earth. But the more massive body barely feels the tug from you, while with your much smaller mass you find yourself firmly rooted thanks to that same force. Yet Newton's laws assume that gravity is an innate force of an object that can act over a distance.

Albert Einstein, in his theory of special relativity, determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and he showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels. As a result, he found that space and time were interwoven into a single continuum known as space-time. Events that occur at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another.
As he worked out the equations for his general theory of relativity, Einstein realized that massive objects caused a distortion in space-time. Imagine setting a large body in the center of a trampoline. The body would press down into the fabric, causing it to dimple. A marble rolled around the edge would spiral inward toward the body, pulled in much the same way that the gravity of a planet pulls at rocks in space.

You might be thinking of Gallileo and his Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment where he demonstrated how objects fall equally.

The Theory of Relativity explains that the Theory of Gravity works. It does not explain why or how gravity works, thus it is a theory.

Re: I just don't get it

traveler — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:37:20 GMT

Thanks to many opinion shows, science is now thought of as opinion and religion as fact.