RE: Who throws the dice for you?
April 18, 2014 at 10:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2014 at 10:56 pm by Anomalocaris.)
I despair of the existence of an amount of dumbing adequate for accessing your level of perceptiveness and suitable for deflecting you from your wish thinking.
The nature of Newtonian gravity is that its strength is proportional to the masses involved, and inversely proportional to the square and distance between the masses. It it not particular to the size, composition, temperature, etc of the masses.
This newton defined with mathematical precision. The mass allowed newton to predict how a thing of such a nature will behave in circumstances not yet observed.
There might be other aspects of gravity's nature that Newton had no basis for specifying. But what a stupefyingly ignorant thing to say that Newton did not define gravity.
If he didn't define gravity and key aspects of gravity's nature, we would have no basis to say he was right, for we would have nothing to test. In fact he would be worse. He would be as bad as you. He would not even be wrong.
What did you do to enable posterity to say whether you are right or wrong?
The nature of Newtonian gravity is that its strength is proportional to the masses involved, and inversely proportional to the square and distance between the masses. It it not particular to the size, composition, temperature, etc of the masses.
This newton defined with mathematical precision. The mass allowed newton to predict how a thing of such a nature will behave in circumstances not yet observed.
There might be other aspects of gravity's nature that Newton had no basis for specifying. But what a stupefyingly ignorant thing to say that Newton did not define gravity.
If he didn't define gravity and key aspects of gravity's nature, we would have no basis to say he was right, for we would have nothing to test. In fact he would be worse. He would be as bad as you. He would not even be wrong.
What did you do to enable posterity to say whether you are right or wrong?
