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A comment on Einstein's Other Theory of Everything. Parent comment
> Well, teaching is the usual reason,
Introducing confusing and intrinsically incorrect models is the opposite of teaching.
> "useful, prerequisite, & intentionally not rigorous" models are a pretty standard tool for walking students closer to real understanding.
The funnel model of gravity isn't useful, prerequisite, or rigorous.
> Unpacking this to a first approximation it actually sounds like you're looking ...
A bunch of projection on your part follows.
I'm sorry to be rude, but to me you seem to be intelligent yet deeply confused.
I'm going to bow out of this thread now, again I apologize.
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> Well, teaching is the usual reason,
Introducing confusing and intrinsically incorrect models is the opposite of teaching.
> "useful, prerequisite, & intentionally not rigorous" models are a pretty standard tool for walking students closer to real understanding.
The funnel model of gravity isn't useful, prerequisite, or rigorous.
> Unpacking this to a first approximation it actually sounds like you're looking ...
A bunch of projection on your part follows.
I'm sorry to be rude, but to me you seem to be intelligent yet deeply confused.
I'm going to bow out of this thread now, again I apologize.