In my discussion about the relevwency of peer review--pretty much NO importanty physics paper ever passed peer review-- someone cfommented on my typing.
Is typing a major scientific skill?
What strikes me as particularly strange is that a community that thinks didderential equations are irrelevant to science thinks that typing skills are.
Koshka
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Baccheus, you do not know where PA's come from, I recall you kindly sending me a link to the earth energy budget after I emailed you critisizing one of your answers when you used the term reflected instead of absorbed and reradiated. Words sometimes are not always important, but in that case they were. Words are only important when relating to understanding concepts, spelling is not that important. Math is important though, so, perhaps Baccheus, you should take or revise high school optics before talking to him about AP math.
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Baccheus, I said: " Words SOMETIMES are not always important, BUT in THAT case THEY WERE. Words are ONLY important when relating to UNDERSTANDING concepts, spelling is not that important. "
I recall the conversation, it struck me that you did not kow the difference between absorption/radiation and COLORS which is REFLETED. Do you understand what reflected means?
This is the only way I can understand greenhouse effect and enhanced greenhouse effect. Trough knowing the DIFFERENCE between absorb/radiate and reflected. I do not need the science academy to tell me what to think, I used optics and radiative transfer concepts to come to the conclusion that we are causing AGW. So my complaint about your terminology is that it perpetuates bad understanding. If you are refering to Fourrier transform, please feel free to explain them to me.
And telling physicists not to use differential equations is also perpetuating bad understanding for some students that might know how to use them. So saying "nobody cares" is antiscience!
Baccheus
Your entire post was about "hey look everybody, I got through two weeks of Calculous!!" When you are bragging that you got through some high school math and you can't spell, you lose credibility. And yes, people will laugh at you. That's just how it is.
Two suggestions: 1) be more careful with your spelling, 2) stop writing about your high school math; nobody cares.
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Koshka, you are wrong. Words have meaning. Go back and re-read my answer to you. The terminology I use is consistent with the community. I use the term "reflect" to refer to the interchange of energy at the earth's surface and the term "redirect' to refer to the interchange of energy at the molecular level of greenhouse gas. Both terms are as used the National Academy of Sciences. I don't know what your complaint really is, but my suggestion if you are complaining about my terminology, is to take it up with the NAS once you are nominated and accepted as a member.
Trevor
If you don’t mind me saying so, you appear to have lost the plot.
One lady commented on the fact that you hadn’t used a spell-checker – so what.
Now you’re implying that the ‘community’ think that differential equations are irrelevant to science. How do you work that one out, especially in light of the ‘community’ responses to your previous questions on the subject?
Kano
A person who is careless with their spelling and typing, is liable to be careless with their equations and science.