Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Albert Wagner (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:30:45 -0600

robert j. kolker wrote:
<snip>

> You are still stuck back in the Newtonian era of pure
> mechanics. Also note that mechanics as done by Newton is no longer the
> prefered mehtodology of physics. Old fashioned mechanics is a relic of
> the past.

Except, of course, where space travel is concerned. NASA still
uses those old fashioned mechanics, as do most engineers. Only
those domains of physics that have been taken over by theoretical
mathematicians concern themselves with infinities, curved spaces
and undead cats. You can't seem to make up your mind as to
whether or not Einstein was wrong. 

-- 
"I know that most men, including those at ease with
problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom
accept even the simplest and most obvious truth
if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity
of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining
to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others,
and which they have woven, thread by thread,
into the fabric of their lives." -
	-- Tolstoy

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