Re: Nobel Prize for David Thomson?!

From: David Thomson (news5_at_volantis.org)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:05:48 -0600

"Bilge" <dubious@radioactivex.lebesque-al.net> wrote in message
news:slrnctlqoq.gam.dubious@radioactivex.lebesque-al.net...
> David Thomson:
> >
> >Let's say the theory is that humans can travel 100 miles per hour.
>
> You are confused about what constitutes a theory.
>
> >Let's
> >say this theory produces the right answer because a person sitting in a
> >car
> >can travel 100 miles per hour, and we know that is verifiable. Well, if
> >the
> >theory predicts the right answer, then why can't someone riding a
> >skateboard
> >travel 100 miles per hour?
>
> I don't know. Why can't a person riding a skateboard travel 100 mph?

I'll give you a clue, it has something to do with Newton's gravitational
theories. A skydiver falls at about 124 miles per hour. A skateboard
experiences considerable friction in order to ride it. You would have to be
practically in a free fall for several hundred feet to achieve that speed.
At that point, you wouldn't be riding a skateboard, you would be skydiving.

> >When a theory predicts the right answer by using the wrong means, it is a
> >bad theory, even if the answer is correct. GR is a bad theory because it
> >incorrectly attributes gravity to the bending of light and space-time.
> >Gravity has absolutely nothing to do with bending light or space-time.
>
> Your comments have nothing to do with physics.

Your physics have nothing to do with physics.

Dave

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