On 23/01/2025 23:00, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jan 23, 2025, at 5:37 PM, Robert Feldman via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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The answer to your question is one that even mainstream physicists (Lord
Kelvin) have gotten wrong in the past.
Seehttps://www.americanscientist.org/article/kelvin-perry-and-the-age-of-the-earth
Absolutely. Lots of earlier physics is either very wrong or actually only an
approximation. (Newtonian gravitation is an example of the latter.)
This is why "settled science" is a crackpot notion. Galileo knew better and
explained it very well.
All science is the best working theory until proven otherwise. However,
theories can and disproven, and that's the history of science.
No proper scientist believes any theory is the final word. However, they
build on theories that have yet to be proven wrong.
The theory that the earth is flat is clearly disproven. Aristotle worked
it it was basically spherical, yet crackpots believe it's flat to this
day - often because their scripture said otherwise.
