I was going to explain the connection between gravity, general relativity, and time. But I understand less than half of it and anyway, that’s not what our boy AG is really talking about here. He’s talking about coming to grand conclusions based on understanding less than half of something. And the guy he’s quoting, Alexander Pope, says that better than I can.
A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Fir’d at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts,
While from the bounded level of our mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind;
But more advanc’d, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise!
So pleas’d at first the towering Alps we try,
Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky,
Th’ eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last;
But, those attain’d, we tremble to survey
The growing labours of the lengthen’d way,
Th’ increasing prospects tire our wand’ring eyes,
Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
It’s from Pope’s “Essay on Criticism.” So AG didn’t get the quote exactly right, big deal, Pope wasn’t picky with word choice and it still scans. “Essay” is an odd thing to name a poem and in fact, Pope is a little pontifical for my tastes.
Until he nails it, both poetically and scientifically, with: “and Alps on Alps arise.”
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Hey, i saw that street an hour ago! Couldn’t we have just taken that street to end up here? It’d save alot of time.
In Boston, these anomalies seem to be correlated with Dunken Donuts. I suspect that there are fewer Dunken Donuts spots than you normally pass. They’ve used spatial anomalies as a cost savings measure.
Gravity maps are clearly next in my investigations.
I wish you all the luck in the world during your investigations, Stephen. I hope you’ll report back on them.