23 Jan
2025
23 Jan
'25
3 p.m.
On Jan 23, 2025, at 5:37 PM, Robert Feldman via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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The answer to your question is one that even mainstream physicists (Lord Kelvin) have
gotten wrong in the past. See
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/kelvin-perry-and-the-age-of-the-e…
Absolutely. Lots of earlier physics is either very wrong or actually only an
approximation. (Newtonian gravitation is an example of the latter.)
This is why "settled science" is a crackpot notion. Galileo knew better and
explained it very well.
paul