25 Jan
2025
25 Jan
'25
5:55 a.m.
Can this stop already?
Sellam
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 9:33 PM Frank Leonhardt via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 23/01/2025 23:00, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Absolutely. Lots of earlier physics is either very wrong or actually
only an approximation. (Newtonian gravitation is an example of the latter.)
On Jan 23, 2025, at 5:37 PM, Robert Feldman via
cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> ...
>
> The answer to your question is one that even mainstream physicists
(Lord Kelvin) have gotten wrong in the past. Seehttps://
www.americanscientist.org/article/kelvin-perry-and-the-age-of-the-earth
This is why "settled science" is a crackpot notion. Galileo knew better
and explained it very well.
All science is the best working theory until proven otherwise. However,
theories can and disproven, and that's the history of science.
No proper scientist believes any theory is the final word. However, they
build on theories that have yet to be proven wrong.
The theory that the earth is flat is clearly disproven. Aristotle worked
it it was basically spherical, yet crackpots believe it's flat to this
day - often because their scripture said otherwise.