Can this stop already? Sellam
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 9:33 PM Frank Leonhardt via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > 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: > >> ... > >> > >> 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. > > >
