I'll second the welcome and hello from Amos, Dr.

I am René Lawrence, performance coach, musician and composer (film, TV, radio, recording, concert, symphony), and children's concert specialist. I take on the cast-offs, special ed, and those children who have been expelled from the Dallas and Houston school districts and teach them "how to fish."

I don't apologize for drawing you out like I did. I just couldn't understand the slap you delivered when I was speaking from an originally humorous position (read the first post again, please). You must have had a bad day.

I warned you that you could not win. I was never in a fighting position. After your slap, my only tools were wit, the (I thought) evident humor and, to bait you and hope you took it.

I was in the thick of the theory (and I just mean theory) that led to the reduction of the apparent speed of light. And, unpublished but witnessed and recognized by a few that I suppose you'd consider "intelligent enough to count," proposed a method to reduce the speed of light in 1958. I only knew "a super cold, reflective/opaque, particulate medium" might do it back then - when I was 8. I was accused of being counter intuitive. How nice. Funny, theorists start "in the head" - no matter what their names, ages or specialties are.

As Amos allowed, there are those of us out here who have good minds and don't need a who's who to use them. I do read original papers on the subjects that interest me and I don't mean distilled versions for the layman. I read those as well, so I can have some more ammunition for the children I deal with.

As I'm sure you realize now (and I hope with a smile), I use any tool I can get my hands on. I need people like you to point to and say, "Ask Him. He can really help you on that subject," when I run into someone with questions in your field.

Here's to you.