If you're a reddit 'refugee,' why did you leave?

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[–]zyxzevn 24 insightful - 8 fun24 insightful - 7 fun25 insightful - 8 fun -  (9 children)

Strange enough, I left after I got banned in science subreddits, after explaining the Maxwell equations. It was probably too complicated for the mods. They do not want to hear or discuss science, but want to hear futurism and scientism.

[–]MobiusRacetrack 9 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

Facts interfere with opinions.

[–]a_man_a_plan_pancake 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Obligatory well that's your opinion man.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Even opinions interfere with their opinions, and the fact they literally can't tolerate the discussion of conflicting opinions is just saddening

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I had no idea that kind of thing was even happening. You don't happen have (and feel happy to share) the ceddit link to the removed content? What could possibly be objectionable? Did they think you were condescending, or something?

I remember learning about the Maxwell equations... or something like that... in physics class at some point. That seems about as non-objectionable and a-politically technical as it can get.

[–]zyxzevn 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It was on askphysics, maybe a year ago.
About how a changing electric field is transferred over a distance.

Maxwell equations are the standard way to do it. I explained the maxwell equations in a conductor. It has moving particles in that case. With a dielectric there are also moving particles in a sense.

In vacuum it has not, and some persons thought that it was a bad explanation. The confusion is about the maxwell equations, not about my understanding. But the mods banned me for me explaining maxwell equations.

The idea gave me some thinking about how maxwell equations are very confusing, as they implicitly define some kind of aether.

The situation is a bit more complicated. A troll that I banned from my own subreddit thought that he needed to attack anything that I wrote on more subreddits. He only did personal attacks and other fallacies, even after warnings. Fair ban. The person itself does not understand physics, nor do many other people on the subreddit. They just repeat the schooled replies, as we can also see on wikipedia. You see that in the way they don't understand the maxwell equations or the criticism that I put in my subreddits.

[–]Theblueearth1 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Just curious, how is the electric field transmitted through a vacuum?

[–]zyxzevn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The electrical field does not need a vacuum. Like the nucleus on an atom, does not need anything to attract the electrons around it.

There are theories about some things that might carry fields. We see many of those in Quantum Electro Dynamics (QED), where virtual particles are transferring forces. They even describe the Higgs field, which transfers some mass. The problem is that virtual particles do not really exist, so scientists try to work with fields instead of particles.

There are also theories about quantum foam and even superstrings. Older theories have ideas about some kind of aether, but the popular ones have problems with explaining relativity. The mainstream theories include relativity by adding other dimensions and complex mathematical transformations.

[–]Jesus 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I was banned at skeptics and /r/engineering for asking about WTC7. Funny, engineers ban people for bringing up forensics.

[–]proc0 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They didn't like the fact all colors combine to form white light.