Re: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Posada" <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: June 09, 2003 05:08 PM
Subject: RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)


>
> The elements are real, but that has nothing to do with it. The formula is
> the only real thing. It describes a concept.

It only describes a concept when E= energy, c = speed of light, and m= mass.
Unless it refers to those things, it's just jibberish.

 What e is, doesn't
> matter....what matters is what e equals, and what it equals is something
> called m times the square of something call c.
>

Of course it matters. The equation is not one in which you can simply
substitute all items labelled by the letters used in it.


 The formula represents a
> value...the fact that the elements of the formula stand for something is
> immaterial...what only matters is that in combination, the values work out
> mathematically.
>

No. The equation is a representation of reality.

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Bonnie Granat
Granat Editorial Services
http://www.editors-writers.info




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