They have a aerospace engineer named Rainman running around here and a physicist name Darby. They are either donating their time or getting paid I don,t know
Reactor,
I'm not a physicist (I have said this before, haven't I?). My university education was in the field of experimental psychology - as I've disclosed in
many posts. In that I've also said that the major involved formulating, executing and reviewing experimental designs. So, yes, my education involves hard science even though I don't truly believe that psychology is, in general, a hard science. I learned enough about experimental design to know what a good experiment is and what a "noisey" bad design is. In the interim I've spent a lot of years, at home and in post-graduate courses, reading and researching the areas of physical science and the math involved in the same realm. But that doesn't make me a physicist - far from it. It only makes me a somewhat well educated lay "expert" (and I use the scare quotes on expert to make it clear that I'm not any more of an expert that any other person who has taken the time and effort to educate him/her self on the subject of physics) in the field of physical science.
My professional endeavors took me far, far away from the field of psychology. I won't reiterate what I did as a professional but suffice it so say that psychology, physics
et al had nothing to do with what I did in "real life" as a government employee. Counter-terrorism was a lot closer to what I was involved in.
And I get exactly the same salary as you and every other member of this forum gets...zero, nada. My opinions are my own and neither Rainman nor Raul (MOP) have any particular influence on those opinions. I post my opinions because in so doing I have fun. That's the
alpha and the
omega of it. Any opinion to the contrary is just that, an opinion... and a false conclusion.
And as Titor and others have said, it really doesn't matter to me if you or anyone else doesn't believe what I just posted. It only matters that
I believe it to be the truth.
As a last word I want to make it clear that I'm not quibbling with your post. I just want to make it clear to the other members just where I'm coming from.
In any case, thank you for your post.
Darby
