Helen wrote:
Mark is making technical challenges and although Barry responded to Mark's challenges here in the past, Mark paid no attention at all and kept on making the same errors.
False. Barry Setterfield has curtly responded to some of what I have written in the past. He has not responded at all to the two blunders that I have pointed out in this thread. You can see for yourself. The first blunder here, Equation (13) saying that Delta (1/lambda) = 1/(Delta lambda) I first pointed this out in a message posted June 21, 2003 09:02 PM to the "Setterfield Revisited and Refocused" thread. Setterfield has nowhere responded to this, nor can he, for it is an elementary algebraic blunder of his, subject to no interpretation.
The second error here, concerning Setterfield's mistake in his Equation (110). (He replaced X with T.) I first brought this blunder (although in different terms) in the same thread posted June 29, 2003 09:24 PM. It is easier to see that Setterfield hasn't responded to this one even if you don't understand the discussion. Since that post on June 29, 2003, he hasn't responded to anyone on any topic here, and the most recent discussion entries for his web page are dated June 26, 2003.
We need not here decide whether Setterfield has ever pointed out a significant error in anything I've written about his work. It is plain that he has not only failed to point out error in my remarks in question here, but has not even responded to them at all.
Mark Kluge has been invited to email Barry anytime. Barry has answered everyone who emails him graciously. He is often far more diplomatic than I am. Barry also emailed a technical reply to the person whose letter I partially quoted above, so that that person would know that Mark's challenges were not only answerable, but that they were based on what appears to be a fairly permanent and intentional misunderstanding of something Barry is presenting.
I have no interest in using Barry Setterfield's question-and-answer forum, since I have no questions for him. Why would I want to ask a question of one who published material saying that 1/(Delta lambda) = Delta(1/lambda)? How can this be a matter of my having a "fairly permanent and intentional misunderstanding" of anything when the earlier matter being brought to his attention was so brought only on June 21, 2003, and to which Setterfield has never responded?
And what good is a privately-emailed technical reply, either to us Baptist Board readers or to the recipient? Here we haven't seen it, so it cannot do us any good. It cannot do the recipient any good either. Consider Setterfield's errant Equation (13) where he tells us that Delta (1/lambda) = 1/(Delta lambda). No technical response can get around that. Anyway, since the recipient was one of the reviewers of Setterfield's paper, one should assume that he is competent to follow such elementary mathematics himself without help from Barry Setterfield.
So no, as far as we are concerned, there will be no more discussions of Barry's material here.
Then there never was, is not now, nor ever will be discussion of Barry Setterfield's material here.