Le vendredi 24 novembre 2006 23:34, Richard Brown a écrit : > Of course we can imagine the moon being made of green cheese. > The problem I have with that -- and the reason I assert that it > _does_ matter -- is that if one begins by assuming an utterly > false premise, one can prove _anything_.
It is not a false premise , which would allow to prove anything. It s "thought experiment" (to reuse Don's vocabulary, i guess taken from Albert Einstein) He did "thought experiments" and wondered : what would i see if i was seating on a light ray ? Of course its impossible, and A.Einstein explained why, but the "thought experiment" was usefull and led to relativity... Again to understand why gravitation bend light, you can just imagine you are in a spaceship uniformly accelerated, and so you will see a bent light ray. This is just a thought experimant but usefull to understand hard stuff. > "If" my presentation seems a bit didactic, it's only because I'm right. May i reuse your end quote ? ;-) Alain _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
