Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Stargazing live, black holes and the scary ass CP/reply (4)

Well, we've talked about my dislike/distrust of the term "reason" or "rationality", as if it's some divine way of looking at life. 1) I doubt most things are actually decided on reason, 2)I think we are far better at reasoning ourselves into staying in a position that we give ourselves credit for. Especially if it's embarrassing on the other side, cause you have to admit you were wrong.

That said, I have a very hard time understanding people who stand up and say "That is not true" without really understanding X or Y. Even those who might damn well be right, coincidentally. Cause, ironically, turns out Relativity might not be right... but not in the way the lunatic asylum thinks, but in the "azimov's 'relativity of wrong'"  (I think it's just delicious that if Einstien is right, than by his own math, he's wrong - where black holes are concerned. Course, the guy from oxford said, quite logically, "the real world is always more messy than the math, making the impossible, possible - just cause there's stuff you don't account for).