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From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Why We WORSHIP Newton
Date: 1 Jan 1997 18:49:12 GMT
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<5a79s2$h4i@mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA> Kent Nickerson writes
> WHY WE WORSHIP NEWTON:
> These TWO POSTULATES give rise to Kepler's Laws
> (confirmed without exception) of planetary motion, as well
> as the painstakingly confirmed classical physics of objects
on
> Earth. Example: radial acceleration of body in circular
> orbit = v*v/r (according to calculus). Therefore,
gravitational
> force on body F=ma also equals GMm/(r*r). This gives
> observed relations between orbit speed, period, distance and
> masses. No problem.
> nickerso@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA (Kent Nickerson)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
You math are not LAWS but simply elaborate descriptions of
OBSERVATIONS! Please! They work until they don't work, as you
yourself mentioned. Then NEW "laws" are formulaed to
describe nature in yet more elaborate ways! What was it that
Newton replaced, and why is it that you worship Newton when
Christopher has pointed out that Einstein debunked HIM? Time to
switcho over to a new god, or better yet, start to think for
yourself!
Try EXPLAINING what you observe, not just
DESCRIBING it. You may arrive for work promptly at 8:00 each
morning, and the lad next to you, being simple minded, might work
up elaborate formulas describing just when he expects to find you
thundering through the door and into your chair, but this does
not explain WHY you are arriving. The pay check, the societal
expectations, the warning from your boss on being late just one
more time, and the new car you will lose if you have to find a
new job. That EXPLAINS you arrival. Now, try not to be that
simple-minded lad.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])