You shall no longer be unfamiliar with it. You heard it here. Alternating or direct? Sometimes its there sometimes it's not. Are you a respectful person 24/7 365 or do you switch on and off depending on a variety of things? Are there times you respect person A and times you don't? Can you be depended upon to ALWAYS be respectful or is it like a coat that you put on and take off at will? I think I beat that horse to death. Thank you for your response tom and Happy Tuesday.
This post was edited by RosieG at January 2, 2018 1:45 AM MST
As a physicist, I am familiar with AC / DC in circuits; as a human being, I also know it refers to bi-sexuality as well. Thanks for explaining what you meant with regard to respect.
I always "respect" what people say, but Let me qualify that statement:
"Respect" used to mean simply that I was aware of your position and understood what you were saying.
It came from the Latin specio and re and meant to "look back"---like a Monday morning quarterback---and be able to accurately judge and critique what happened on Sunday.
Somehow, over time, respect came to imply agreement and approval, if not downright admiration and esteem.
Not good.
Just like "decimate"---if you had a force of 100,000 men and it was decimated, you could know that 90,000 survived. Now "decimate" means "massive destruction," and you have no idea whether 10,000 were lost or whether 80,000 were lost.
I used to be able to say I "respect" Hitler's position and say that because I did in fact "respect" them---such as his "Final Solution"---but that I had neither admiration nor esteem for them and rather found them to be abhorrent.
So I still use the old definitions---I always respect what someone says, but whether I approve or disapprove is yet to be decided.
Quantum Physicist? What is your speciality tom? I love scifi as a literary genre and that is how I discovered quantum physics. I bought and read books on the subject. I have no educational background in Physics whatsoever but the books are written for people like me although there are parts to them I don't understand but I don't have to. I get enough out of them to make them beyond worthwhile. I see/hear Michio Kaku on the Science channel sometimes. I have his book "Hyperspace." Here are the other books I have and have read FYI. Isaac Asimov:" Understanding Physics: Light,Magnetism and Electricity" AND "The Electron, Proton and Neutron". Richard Feynman's "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman". Heinz Pagels "The Cosmic Code". John Casti "Complexification" . Stephen Hawking "A Brief History of Time" and "The Theory of Everything".Nick Herbert "Quantum Reality". Crease and Mann "The Second Creation". Kip Thorne "Black Holes & Time Warps". Fred Wolf "Parallel Universes". Rudy Rucker "The Fourth Dimension". James Gleick "Chaos". Anthony Aveni "Empires of Time". Cohen and Stewart "The Collapse of Chaos". M.Mitchell Waldrop "Complexity". John Boslough "Stepen Hawking's Universe". Royston Roberts "Serendipity..Accidental Discoveries in Science". So what are You interested in, intrigued by, believe is possible in your field? I know Kip Thorne and Hawking are close friends. I loved Richard Feynman. I saw him on a show once decades ago where he was playing the drums of all things! His lectures were da bomb! He had a splendid personality. I cannot respect someone whom I despise. For me respect means admire, understand the value. I acknowledge a person's right to think whatever crap he/she wishes to think but I do not "respect" it . Thank you for your thoughtful reply and Happy Wednesday! :)
tom jackson 