PeroK's latest activity

It's worth noting that this is an over simplification, one which contributes to the confusion around black holes (IMO) by providing a...

When do I start relearning all the physics I know? It's true I took some physics as part of my mathematics degree back in the early...

I agree with you partially, if a person is fully self taught then they are 100% going to have to relearn what they taught themselves but...

There's definitely truth to this: using textbooks (and these days, a little bit of the internet) to teach yourself everything does have...

I just came across a post in another thread, “Some thoughts about self-education“, where gleem wrote the following: “Sometimes, after...

To determine the direction of the gravitational field, also known as "down", you suspend a mass from a string and you deduce that "down"...

The field lines may be curved when two or more bodies are involved. See here, for example...

Yeah he was V50 for a reason. Now he has gone I have been going through a few threads and interactions. The "one liner" thread went...

Disagreeing that tired light has been debunked is not a viable position here. That's correct. And our best current models all take that...

We don't do discussions by proxy here. If your friend wants to ask about this here, he can open his own PF account. That said, your own...

Wright's tutorial pages list issues with tired light. https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm It's good to keep those in mind as...

It's not enough to think something, you have to show that what you think matches the data. When Einstein developed the General Theory...

When I say all the crackpots are working on unification theories, that's not the same as saying all people working on unification...

Let's suppose I became an editor and to begin with I took every submission seriously. I would read them fully and give the author a...

I'm not convinced you've understood superposition and the linear algebra that describes them. ##L_z = 0## is a complete description of...