oscar said:
*SNIP
I have said the Mayas, Egyptians, Incas, Sumerians NEVER INVENTED ANY FORMULAS COS THEY THEMSELVES ADMITED IT WAS A GIFTED FROM THE GODS. That's why you won't wind any formulas and that's why it was so easy to be forgotten the technologies of the past.
Without formulae, numbers, specific, concrete predictions, how can we test your ideas? Aren't we all then reduced to "I say {text} means a detailed description of an anti-gravity drive!" and "No, you've got it all wrong! I say {text} means an idiosyncratic description of how delightful last night's repast was!"
oscar said:
If you ask the offspring of Mayas and Incas or Egyptians how did they build pyramids, Sacsayhuamán, Machu Picchu, Teotihuacan they don't know and there's no archeologists or historians reasonable explantions about that forgetfullness.
And if you ask me about why Qinshihuang-di burned scholars and buried books (or was it the other way round?), or why the builders of Stonehenge didn't use wood instead, I can't tell you either. However, there are some pretty good ideas on how the various pyramids were built.
oscar said:
The guy failed to give a proper answer about Cydonia in Mars, so I won't give more details until he does his research about the chosen name which is not translated.
Perhaps you're referring to Nereid? What makes you think I'm a guy? Since this is the internet, why can't I be a dog?
Re Cydonia: your question was "WHY DID NASA CHOOSE THE NAME OF MARTIAN LOCAL 'CYDONIA'?", to which my answer was: "NASA does not, and CANNOT, name features on the planets and their moons; that's the role of the IAU." Perhaps you meant: "Why did NASA
recommend the name 'Cydonia' to the IAU for adoption?" But that would imply that there was, in 1957 or earlier, a formal process within NASA for selecting, discussing, agreeing and then recommending names ... and that would only take us back one more step ...
Just out of curiosity though, does the name Cydonia help you to make specific, concrete, testable predictions?
oscar said:
So, before I keep on answering to satisfy your curiosity, you have to tell me why do you believe in the things you believe, let's say Big Bang, gravitons or gravity as a suspected "force", the speed of light, etc.
Leaving aside the word 'believe' for a moment, this is very easy to answer ... if you take the trouble to read some of the posts I have made in Physics Forums, you will find many answers. In a nutshell, specific, concrete results from theories which are consistent with observations and experiments. In the case of General Relativity, *no* observation or experiment has a result inconsistent with the predictions from the theory (within its domain of applicability)
oscar said:
I could ask if you believe in expansion of the universe and then quote from someone using math and more theories to say that is an illusion of the curvature of the space, I could say Michelson-Morley experimental tests is just a hoax, I can say the paralex use of trigonometry shouldn't be applied to far away stars but only to the ones which are close and then conclude all your estimated "light years" are just speculation.
You could say all that. To which I would reply "I'm from Missouri, show me." with specific, concrete, testable predictions (or experimental results, or observational data).
oscar said:
Now, CAN I ASK YOU QUESTIONS to examine if you're that intelligent and prepared to believe your words? Everyone who dislike something usually says the same repetitive and general statement "that's baseless", so you are merely repeating what Moderator said "that's nothing". So, I re-responded him.
Ask away! Please be sure to mention specific, concrete, testable predictions.
