05-08-2013, 04:56 AM
Ray:
Good to see you escaped Simkin's nuthouse.
But I was not being pedantic, just like I was not being rhetorical.
I thought, hey maybe wilson wrote a book or pamphlet explaining his ideas. I would like to see that book.
OK, that was not it.
And please, do we have to compare Wilson with one of the great scientists in history? I mean, what is next: Wilson and Newton?
See, there really is no mystery about the ideas of Galileo and Newton. They are easy to understand once explained. And you can do it with high school students.
With Wilson, to use four examples, Groden, myself, John Costella and Mili Cranor, don't understand it. And Cranor has one of the best visual and technical minds I know. And Costella is a scientist. Groden is a photo expert. I have a degree in film. So we are not dunces.
I used to have my own darkroom and I developed scores of photos. I made up the chemical solutions myself. And I then soaked the emulsions into the liquids. I then set the film on a plate with an enlarger and developed my own photos to whatever format I wanted to on photographic copy paper. So I know something about that process and how it works. I also know how optics and light transmittal are transferred through a lens onto a film plate with the strip of film going across it. And I know how that process works.
Never in all my years of studying film or photography-and it was a long time--did I ever come across anything like Wilson's technology. And the history of film is well over a century old. Photography is even older.
So before one accepts it, one should hear from people who have some exposure to it and have some well based doubts about it.
Good to see you escaped Simkin's nuthouse.
But I was not being pedantic, just like I was not being rhetorical.
I thought, hey maybe wilson wrote a book or pamphlet explaining his ideas. I would like to see that book.
OK, that was not it.
And please, do we have to compare Wilson with one of the great scientists in history? I mean, what is next: Wilson and Newton?
See, there really is no mystery about the ideas of Galileo and Newton. They are easy to understand once explained. And you can do it with high school students.
With Wilson, to use four examples, Groden, myself, John Costella and Mili Cranor, don't understand it. And Cranor has one of the best visual and technical minds I know. And Costella is a scientist. Groden is a photo expert. I have a degree in film. So we are not dunces.
I used to have my own darkroom and I developed scores of photos. I made up the chemical solutions myself. And I then soaked the emulsions into the liquids. I then set the film on a plate with an enlarger and developed my own photos to whatever format I wanted to on photographic copy paper. So I know something about that process and how it works. I also know how optics and light transmittal are transferred through a lens onto a film plate with the strip of film going across it. And I know how that process works.
Never in all my years of studying film or photography-and it was a long time--did I ever come across anything like Wilson's technology. And the history of film is well over a century old. Photography is even older.
So before one accepts it, one should hear from people who have some exposure to it and have some well based doubts about it.