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Nonsense
StarThrower,
You are a fool. And for the record, ten years at a community college don't qualify for "[studying] at a fine northeastern university."
You've attempted to apply philosophy to physics. And you've (no surprise here) done this incorrectly. Much as it bores me to respond...