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Your question would be better stated in terms of. "I know that energy isn't destroyed so where have I gone wrong in my reasoning and...

Any time you run into a paradox, your first thought should be that you have taken a wrong turn on the way there. You have started from...

I do not understand what this means. By definition a vector field on a manifold ##M## is a function ##v:M\to TM## such that ##v(x)\in T_xM##

Then stop using sentences that needs to be backed up by references.

for example Hawking and others https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-model-dependent-realism-2699404 I gets cumbersone to provide a...

Modern Ramanujan would certainly know proper maths. If not, he would not be modern Ramanujan.

This is an offtop because I have formulated the subject of discussion: And yes if this "modern day Ramanujan" can not solve a problem...

I'm wondering how you would treat a modern day Ramanujan. Would you shout at them; "Go back to school, and learn PROPER maths!" ? Ok...

I like seeing crackpots banned. Especially when stupidity is triumphing in real life.

In my judgment, the thernodynamics books do a fine job of representing the differential changes in thermodynamic functions in terms of...

Oh that's tricky, because I usually trip over the last one, because I loose focus too early, so I guess it's more important for me. Long...

Which step is most important when you climb the stairs, the first or the last?

I think the onus is on you to provide evidence of PhD students who cannot explain how motion is possible given Newton's Third Law.