For the record, I find that scientists make such errors routinely. In public conferences when optical scientists propose systems that violate the constant radiance theorem, I have no trouble standing up and saying so. It happens often enough that when I see a scientist propose such a system, It does not diminish my opinion of that scientist. I have fallen into this trap myself at times. Making this error should not be a source of embarrassment.
either way, you are claiming Sandberg, a physicist who works with thermodynamic stuff all the time, made a trivial error of physics;
I did not expect this to revert to credentialism. If you were to find out that my credentials exceed this other guy’s, would you change your position? If not, why appeal to credentials in your argument?
For the record, I find that scientists make such errors routinely. In public conferences when optical scientists propose systems that violate the constant radiance theorem, I have no trouble standing up and saying so. It happens often enough that when I see a scientist propose such a system, It does not diminish my opinion of that scientist. I have fallen into this trap myself at times. Making this error should not be a source of embarrassment.
I did not expect this to revert to credentialism. If you were to find out that my credentials exceed this other guy’s, would you change your position? If not, why appeal to credentials in your argument?