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Article #6229Re: EINSTEIN ZOMBIE WORLD IS GETTING SUSPICIOUS
From: Michael Hell
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:39
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:39
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On Oct 27, 12:02 pm, Randy Poe <poespam-t...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Oct 16, 2:03 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Albert Einstein: "If the speed of light is the least bit affected by > > the speed of the light source, then my whole theory of relativity and > > theory of gravity is false." > > > Albert Einstein: "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot > > be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous structures. > > Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the > > theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of contemporary > > physics." > > Still struggling with trying to understand a statement > of the Scientific Method, I see. I'm sure Einstein would have a hard time accepting your version of the scientific method. He said that science is just a refinement of everyday thinking. He was highly influential on Karl Popper, who essentially said there is no such thing as the scientific method, but instead scientific knowledge arises through the same process all knowledge arises: conjecture and refutation intertwined heavily with Darwinistic themes.
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X-Google-Thread: 10f545,b765e2558d75d975 X-Google-Thread: 10b271,b765e2558d75d975 X-Google-Thread: f74ae,b765e2558d75d975 X-Google-Thread: fa4c1,b765e2558d75d975 X-Google-Thread: 1139f8,b765e2558d75d975 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f545,gid10b271,gidf74ae,gidfa4c1,gid1139f8,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Michael Hell <mobydikc@gmail.com> Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics,sci.astro,fr.sci.physique,fr.sci.maths Subject: Re: EINSTEIN ZOMBIE WORLD IS GETTING SUSPICIOUS Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:39:12 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 28 Message-ID: <1193513952.484076.219270@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> References: <1192514583.112245.275420@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <1193511739.811581.150970@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.202.139.190 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1193513952 2815 127.0.0.1 (27 Oct 2007 19:39:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:39:12 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1193511739.811581.150970@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.202.139.190; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0