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Originally Posted by Potus
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No one would have called something a photon before the term was coined, the same way no one would have called Thomas Paine a socialist before the term was coined.
Rube Goldberg ----> your scrotum
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Once again, who the fuck cares? They were called corpuscules by Newton. Just because Lewis used Latin to name something (good choice Lewis!) doesn't really have any significance. I was giving both you and Weier(whateverthecraphisnameis) grief because you guys were applying modern-day political science terms for historical political factions that are both distorted by history and your interpretation of what they mean because you grew up in modern times. Seriously, a photon is a photon, although it is more mysteriously beautiful than maybe anything in science, it is known well what someone means when they say photon. However socialist, liberal, republican... this shit changes with time.
You can see I am swearing slightly more as this thread progresses. It is because if you really are in academia (which I get the impression you are) I am sad. It seems you have a poor, narrow education. If you were trained in logic, your grammar would be better. If you were trained in science, you would understand it more. I swear more often because I get more and more depressed about the lack of thought, logic, and science training's value in our modern society. I like to swear at you, because if you are a teacher, you will probably fail a bright student who owns you in class as I have here. If he be a physicist/mathematician/logician, I hope I have not added to your and Rilkean's hatred for us... please be gentle on him.