Re: Basics series proposed

From: Bjoern Feuerbacher (feuerbac_at_thphys.uni-heidelberg.de)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:25:06 +0200

Androcles wrote:

[snip]

> A closed mind is not a target worth shooting at.

Yes. That's why most people ignore you.

[snip]

> : I don't know what causes gravity myself-
>
> Nor does anyone else.

Physicists think otherwise.

[snip]

> Einstein forgot about sitting on a chair when he ranted on about
> curvature of space.

No, he didn't.

> Pretty obviously a comet follows a curved
> path, and whether you say it follows a curved path in straight
> space or a straight path in curved space doesn't say what it is
> either.

No one claimed that saying something about the path explains what
gravity is.

> As I sit at this desk, I'm not following any path at all,

Yes, you are.

[snip]

Bye,
Bjoern

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