From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Dec 12 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gip.net!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!naturesway.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Andrew K Fletcher" Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.microbiology,bionet.neuroscience Subject: Re: The truth is out there Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 17:38:47 -0000 Message-ID: <913570714.12075.0.nnrp-06.d4e44203@news.demon.co.uk> References: <73sh3s$1n2$2@news.tamu.edu> <912381406.6676.0.nnrp-04.d4e44203@news.demon.co.uk> <73t7tt$9kr$2@news.tamu.edu> <36635D8D.46F680BA@pop3.concentric.net> <740246$k24$1@news.tamu.edu> <913500941.7312.0.nnrp-04.d4e44203@news.demon.co.uk> <36733F0D.5BA589C9@pop3.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: naturesway.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: naturesway.demon.co.uk:212.228.66.3 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 913570714 nnrp-06:12075 NO-IDENT naturesway.demon.co.uk:212.228.66.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Lines: 40 Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:4641 bionet.microbiology:15323 bionet.neuroscience:26501 Thanks for your kind review Ken Would like to offer the following remark to the use of a microscope, and hope it is received in a positive context. Education has been the downfall of science and prohibits free thinking. Education causes people to stop before they say something. A child is far more clever than some well educated people, whom I have met. They have become too well educated, and no longer see the wood for the trees. A top scientist was talking on a BBC radio program about the advances in science. Listeners were invited to ask him questions. Needless to say there were not many takers. However I asked him this question: "When you look through your microscope, do you see more or less of the object which you are focused on?". To my surprise he couldn't answer the question and blinded the question with B.S. and somewhat hesitant political skill. A child would have probably answered "More", meaning more detail, but you actually see less of the object. I was trying to point out that the closer one looks at the details the less one sees. In other words step back and look at the whole picture. This is particularly important with regard to trying to work out how things happen in the real world. You can't take a slice from a tree any more than you can take a slice from a vital organ, to find out how it works because you have disconected it. "Sorry for stating the obvious again". kkollins@pop3.concentric.net wrote in message <36733F0D.5BA589C9@pop3.concentric.net>... >Good for you, Andrew, the integration inherent in your Theory is >Quite-Nice. You can Verify your position be-cause, if it's Correct, the >"tube"-construction must be graded over the length of the tubes >(greatest where the tube is oldest, least where the tube is newest.) a >carefully cross-sectioned tree, a microscope, and the Will to do what'll >be a lengthy cross-correlation process are all you need. > >I enjoyed reading your work. Cheers, Ken Collins > >Andrews K Fletcher wrote: > >[his Interesting Theoretical Position re. water flow in trees] .