Re: WHY ALL BODIES "FALL" AT THE SAME RATE

In article <e1t91e$8qk_008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jmfbahciv@xxxxxxx writes:
In article <e1sdo0$bdo$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
glhansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
In article <1145118599.276566.83970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<dlham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For 2000 years science philosophers accepted Aristotle's absolutely
ridiculous idea, that a heavy body, since it weighed more then a
lighter body, should fall faster because the heavy body was exerting
more downward force. It doesn't make sense when you think about it.

Why would two bodies, by simply being connected together into one large
body and therefore weigh more, fall faster then they would if they were
not connected and fell individually. Apparently Galileo realized the
fallacy of this idea and experimentally proved this was not the case
but did not know why.

I just dropped a bean bag and a square of toilet paper side by side. I
don't know how fallacious the argument is, but the bean bag was heavier
and it hit the ground first. What result would you have expected?

It's easy to look back on 2000 years of progressive thinking and make fun
of those that came before. But pioneering is harder than it looks.

We weren't pioneers. Yet I have a very difficult time describing
why we couldn't do every sexy thing that every individual customer
demanded be put into the sources and distributed to all customers.
There was more to our biz than just creating a widget that worked
once. I haven't figured out how to describe all the millions
manhours that had to happen before one binary bit was shipped
and used by somebody in the field.

Well, when you read popular accounts of progress and innovations, in
pretty much any field, it is always along the lines of "somebody had
an idea and he acted upon it and these is what came out of it". The
"little details" involved in getting from the begiining to the end of
the above are hardly ever mentioned.

Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
meron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | chances are he is doing just the same"
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