Re: Tom Van Flandern and Newtonian Gravity

From: greywolf42 (mingstb_at_marssim-ss.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:31:30 -0700

Thomas J Roberts <tjroberts@lucent.com> wrote in message
news:40BCC5C1.2010509@lucent.com...
> On 6/1/2004 7:57 AM, Mike wrote:
> > [example of a difficult question about causality]
> > Tie a stone at the end of a rope and whirl it around Dr. Van Flandern.
> > Is the tension on the rope the cause of the circular orbit or the
circular
> > orbit causes the tension on the rope?
>
> Yes, your question exhibits one reason for the lack of NAIVE causality in
> all modern theories of physics. And even in some not-so-modern theories.
>
> In fact, AFAIK SR was really the first theory to have anything
> identifiable as "causality" at all.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

You forgot Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. You forgot Maxwell's
theory of perfect gases. You also forgot phogiston, and all the other
theories we no longer use.

{snip the rest} 

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