John McCain said, "They (Dem) will paint a picture of the world in which America's mistakes are a greater threat to our security than the malevolent intentions of an enemy that despises us and our ideals;".
I think this is anti-patriotic. He's saying that America is not massively more powerful than its enemies. If you are super patriotic and think America is say 1000 times more powerful than its enemies then even if the enemies put 100% of the effort into destroying America, only 0.1% of America's efforts need to be mistakes hurting itself to do as much damage as its enemies. If say 1% of efforts are mistakes then America's mistakes do 10 times as much damage as its enemies.
Even very optimistically at least 10% of America's efforts to stop terrorism are mistakes so John McCain is saying that America is not 10 times more powerful than its enemies. I think McCain should apologize to the army and country as a whole for insulting its power.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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If you present such sensible calculations to McCain, I think they would call it fuzzy math. Maybe even fuzzy wuzzy math.
We used to think that spacetime was flat, and in this flat spacetime, there's an infinite number of inertial frames, but we could conceivably take any one of these and extend it over the whole of spacetime into one global frame of reference- in a way that inertial trajectories remained inertial.
But when we try to do this with the new inertial frames, where the observer is in gravitational freefall (so it's accelerating, but not within his own frame), when two inertial frames meet during the extension, they will disorient each other so that their freefalling trajectories will now be accelerating relative to each others' frames.
And apparently, relative acceleration is a sign that the geometry of the space we're moving in is curved.
Does that make sense? General relativity finally makes sense to me after reading from lots of different sources and lots of imagining, but I was so not getting it at first.
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