Re: Calling all wlaking Chiropracters, Osteopaths, Physiotherapists and Doctors

In message <1193760605.205627.234650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
me <oconnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And what tends to hack me off is that the words DO have meaning,
but these meanings are ignored in this type of gobbledygook.

I've sat through these discussions amongst practitioners. I ask
what form of energy is this? How many joules? Why should I
think of energy as a "force"? Force and energy aren't the same thing.
What kind of "balance" is this? An energy balance? What magnitude
of balance is necessary? What level of precision is necessary?
Can Qi be transplanted? Do I lose it when I bleed? Does Qi have
mass?

To be fair, whilst I agree with you general take on this subject,
there's nothing particularly wrong with using words like "force" and
"energy", as long as you define their meanings in a meaningful way
(which acupuncturists don't appear to). Just because physics has
appropriated them for very specific uses doesn't make physicists the
only ones who can define them, so whilst it's incorrect in the context
of physics to use force and energy as synonyms, in the wider world it
isn't necessarily wrong.

--
Simon Challands
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