Bob Cain writes:

Randy Yates wrote:

Are you REALLY this clueless and/or stupid? I give up. You apparently
do not have the facilities to reason rationally.


Are you the same Randy Yates that is a regular on comp.dsp?

You're damn right I am, Bob.

My respect for you and others here has plummetted. I hear you repeatedly
asking folks to spoon-feed you at the most fundamental level - so much
so you can't seem to lift a finger to check out a reference. Do you
live at the North Pole? Why can't you go to the library and check out
a physics book? Are you crippled?

Porky seems to be pulling reasons out of a hat. ruffrecords can't seem
to reason.

As I said earlier in another post, my response would be different if
folks came at this from a more humble perspective of rational inquiry
and discussion.

The problem with your approach, Bob, is that you are challenging
a well-proven principle with little or no reason to back it up. Why
WOULDN'T a speaker act as a moving platform? Porky proffered a
strange theory at least - you have offered none that I recall. At
some point calling reasonable assumptions into question is irrational
and you begin searching for the holy grail when the more rational
explanation is the one that is simplest.

You stand hard on the "theory" of science as requiring "proof." I got
news for ya' - scientific "proof" isn't all it's cracked up to
be. Invariably, at some level, there will be assumptions that are
made. Even in mathematics, proofs are based, ultimately, on axioms,
and those axioms are essentially just assumptions about what is true.

Keep in mind that this is a mathematics and electrical engineering
graduate speaking here.

Essentially, our laws and theories are ones that agree with our
experience and our universe as best we can model at the moment. There
is no "proof" of any of them.
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Randy Yates
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
, 919-472-1124