@naomi
Thank you.
You see? I had no idea that jim didn't know that kind of stuff, either. I just assumed that, having done GCSEs, A level (I did O and A levels in it, myself) and a Physics degree, the contents of which I could only guess at, he must have has a brushing acquaintance with astrophysics and cosmology.
I was wrong in that. I am still puzzled, however, by how quantum physics researchers can be that far detached from what the particles and forces they deal with do at the macro scale. None of my business though.
Anyway, at the time, I *assumed* that he could do a morecthourough, less waffley explanation than I could manage.
Is that okay, by you?
I saw his post, decrying how he is fed up of all and sundry requesting physics-ey explanations from him. If there are any other professional scientific researchers using AB at all, perhaps he should ask himself why they stay in permanent lurk mode?
//to save you the trouble of explaining it to me is patronising. It implies that I don’t know what I’m talking about.//
You have decided that. And you are, indirectly, insulting my mother, who went to very great pains to teach me to treat women with respect.
For some reason, I feel that starting a post by ~instructing~ readers to "go look up first and second generation stars because (debating point)" would be patronising. "Do you understand X?" requires waiting an extra turn. I wanted to say what I had to say right away, before it went away.
I apologise for my impatience and my methods.
By the way, did you get around to challenging the scientific point I made in that post?
Messenger/message bifurcation again. ;)