Does the hunter go around the squirrel? Vote and then move on already.

[infinite monkey]

Oh come on!

All sense of logic has left your head.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Oh come on!

All sense of logic has left your head.

I don't understand why you'd say this, unless you're just kidding around. jim gives a fine explanation of my reasoning following your post.

Care to explain?

[glatt]

I agree with IM on the driver/passenger example. The frame of reference for a driver and passenger is the car. The driver is stationary next to the passenger for the entire time. He does not go around the passenger. It isn't until you leave the car and make the frame of reference a flag pole in the middle of the circle, and the car is a convertible, that you can see the circular motions of each.

Everything is moving, and the observed motions depend on where you are standing. The earth spins. The earth orbits the sun. The sun orbits the center of the galaxy. The galaxy is careening through the universe. Am I sitting stationary at my desk or am I traveling at thousands of miles an hour on a rock shooting through space?

When we talk about drivers and passengers, they are sitting still in a car. It's the car that is moving.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by glatt

I agree with IM on the driver/passenger example. The frame of reference for a driver and passenger is the car. The driver is stationary next to the passenger for the entire time. He does not go around the passenger. It isn't until you leave the car and make the frame of reference a flag pole in the middle of the circle, and the car is a convertible, that you can see the circular motions of each.

Everything is moving, and the observed motions depend on where you are standing. The earth spins. The earth orbits the sun. The sun orbits the center of the galaxy. The galaxy is careening through the universe. Am I sitting stationary at my desk or am I traveling at thousands of miles an hour on a rock shooting through space?

When we talk about drivers and passengers, they are sitting still in a car. It's the car that is moving.

Maybe all your examples, even the crazy hunter one too, is missing an important and necessary qualifier "relative to ______". Absent that qualifier, each of us can use some relative center, some relative frame of reference, RELATIVE TO WHICH each of these objects are doing or not doing something or other. Precision in language is the only way to resolve questions like this.

[glatt]

I'd agree with that, BigV.

[regular.joe]

Originally Posted by BigV

Maybe all your examples, even the crazy hunter one too, is missing an important and necessary qualifier "relative to ______". Absent that qualifier, each of us can use some relative center, some relative frame of reference, RELATIVE TO WHICH each of these objects are doing or not doing something or other. Precision in language is the only way to resolve questions like this.

In physics they have this thingy called transformations to link the relativity in different frames of reference. The position of the observer is very important to these types of problems. It is the same for someone inside of an elevator and someone outside of an elevator witnessing events inside and outside of the elevator, when these events occur at the same time from different perspectives. Because the speed of light is constant, Einstein realized that the actual size of objects must not be constant and that time cannot be constant for different observes and objects in different locations. The precision in language that you make reference to is mathematics.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by BigV

I don't understand why you'd say this, unless you're just kidding around. jim gives a fine explanation of my reasoning following your post.

Care to explain?

You know what? No.

You talk 'around' me, which is talking down to me. "Maybe you're as great as geometry as I am..." paraphrase crap.

If I said I could sort of understand how you would think otherwise, would you stop telling me I'm completely and utterly wrong?

Semantics. ffs. Overthink it and you'll have magic pigs flying out of your ass and to the moon, if you want.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

You know what? No.

You talk 'around' me, which is talking down to me. "Maybe you're as great as geometry as I am..." paraphrase crap.

If I said I could sort of understand how you would think otherwise, would you stop telling me I'm completely and utterly wrong?

Semantics. ffs. Overthink it and you'll have magic pigs flying out of your ass and to the moon, if you want.

Fine. fucking "no". no problem. *I* am not talking down to you, I am as respectful of you as I ever am. I'm not telling you you're completely and utterly wrong. That is not paraphrasing me, that is putting words in my mouth, wholesale.

For the record, I am not trying to persuade you to agree with my position. I am doing the opposite, I am asking you to persuade me. To show me the "truth" of your position. To explain to me why you're "right".

[jimhelm]

but the driver does complete a circle that entirely encompasses the passenger's path/position at all times

he has him surrounded!

[jimhelm]

how about this:

I'm standing in your way on a narrow foot path, facing you.

you need to pass.

I refuse to step aside.

you go around me.

you go to your left, my right. off the path for a few steps, and then back on and continue on your way.

you never see the left side of my body.

did you, or did you not.... go ...around... me?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

how about this:

I'm standing in your way on a narrow foot path, facing you.

you need to pass.

I refuse to step aside.

you go around me.

you go to your left, my right. off the path for a few steps, and then back on and continue on your way.

you never see the left side of my body.

did you, or did you not.... go ...around... me?

And I'll be thinking unkind thoughts about you as I do go around you.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

how about this:

I'm standing in your way on a narrow foot path, facing you.

you need to pass.

I refuse to step aside.

you go around me.

you go to your left, my right. off the path for a few steps, and then back on and continue on your way.

you never see the left side of my body.

did you, or did you not.... go ...around... me?

Yes.

Consider:

I'm driving in a crowded parking lot, looking for a spot to park my car. I see someone ahead of me getting into there car. I stop and wait for the person to vacate the space I want to take. There's room to pass and I wave to the person in the car behind me to drive past, and they do so. Have they "gone around" me?

***

My son comes home from kindergarten and tells me his friend has the chicken pox. Over the next couple weeks several kids in the same class also get chicken pox. Has the chicken pox "gone around" the class?

***

I host a party where I serve pulled pork and baked beans. Everyone helps themselves to the pork and the beans, but as the cook, I am too busy cooking and entertaining to make a plate. By the time I do so, all the beans are gone. Did the beans go around? What there had been enough for everyone? Would the beans have "gone around"?

***

At the end of the party, the last guest finally leaves. I watch them drive away down my long driveway and disappear from sight as the driveway curves gently to the left. Has my guest "gone around" the bend in the road?

***

"Gone around" has lots of contexts, and consequently lots of meanings.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by BigV

"Gone around" has lots of contexts, and consequently lots of meanings.

But irrelevant, because in this case, the correct context is understood by all.

People aren't confused that maybe "gone around" means the hunter has taken a few pisses in the vicinity of the squirrel.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

But irrelevant, because in this case, the correct context is understood by all.

People aren't confused that maybe "gone around" means the hunter has taken a few pisses in the vicinity of the squirrel.

I checked, and this post by you is the first one in either of these two threads, the poll about the kerfuffle, and the nutso thread with the kerfuffle puzzle. I have to say I don't agree that the "correct context is understood by all" at all.

I get your joke about "going/peeing". hahaha, clever, sure. And it's true that no one has made that mistake about the hunter and the squirrel. But as for the context of that mental nut being understood by all, that has definitely not been the case.

I'm interested in your answer to the original Mental Nut.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by BigV

I checked, and this post by you is the first one in either of these two threads, the poll about the kerfuffle, and the nutso thread with the kerfuffle puzzle.

I don't warrant such detail, but --

I'm interested in your answer to the original Mental Nut.

It's in the post above yours, professor.