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Re: [Amps] "Conventional" current flow

To: Kevin <kstover@ac0h.net>
Subject: Re: [Amps] "Conventional" current flow
From: Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 20:13:33 -0600
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I believe Snopes gets revenue solely from ads. My experience has been that 
their info is pretty good. They've consulted us (National Severe Storms Lab) a 
few times to verify certain weather facts. 

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the 
music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Nov 19, 2016, at 18:29, Kevin <kstover@ac0h.net> wrote:
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> A computer science axiom which has never failed, "garbage in, garbage out". 
> People just assume mathematical simulations are correct.
> 
> Werner Heisenberg, the father of Quantum Physics and the uncertainty 
> principle named after him, got the math wrong on Germany's atomic bomb. Good 
> thing too as up to that point the Germans were ahead of us.
> 
> In the non-scientific world the webpage Snopes.com is put forth as the final 
> authority as to a story's veracity. One question...Who checks Snopes and what 
> is their financial/political axe to grind?
> 
> 
>> On 11/19/2016 5:52 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
>> ------------ ORIGINAL MESSAGE ------------(may be snipped)
>> 
>>> On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 15:38:51 -0800, you wrote:
>>> 
>>> With all due respect, it would appear that you may be unaware of the vital 
>>> role
>>> mathematics plays in discovery of our physical universe.
>> REPLY:
>> 
>> Nobody has said that mathematics is not useful. My observation was
>> that a mathematical model is just that - a model - and not the reality
>> itself. Some people lose sight of that from time to time.
>> 
>> 73, Bill W6WRT
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