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In article <1c88e830.16ac4716@usw-ex0105-038.remarq.com>,
  jon <ibalNOibSPAM@slip.net.invalid> wrote:
>> *This is why
>> before Copernicus all the mathematicians on the earth could PROVE
>> that
>> the entire universe orbited earth (and predicted orbits
>> quite "satisfactorily") with their equations.*

> Actually, it was the inability to "satisfactorily" predict orbits
> that drove the work of Copernicus, and later Kepler.

Just as it is the inability of the Big Bang model & Einstein
to predict "at all" that the so-called "expansion" of the
univese is accelerating... that drove my work; as it will drive
the work of those who will hereafter achieve more precise
models.  Ah, that I should live to see them do it!

> No previous
> models
> could account for retrograde orbits. The models of Copernicus were
> closer to being accurate, but still not perfect. It took Kepler to
> surmise that the orbits were eliptical, rather than round.A theory is
> a
> tentative answer to a question about observed phenomena. Absolute
> truth
> is not the issue, nor is a 1-to-1 correspondence ratio with "the thing
> in itself"

My, you have a philosophical bent there
(I have a crick myself).

> A theory is only as good as it is useful, for the prediction of data.

I have a theory about the young lady next door,
but it hasn't helped me any.

> As far as the metal rod is concerned, can you produce one, bent or
> straight, that occupies zero time-space? Time-space is as real as that
> rod will ever be.

Flash: 1) Time only exists in the human mind. And ANYTHING
constructed by the universe with it... also does not exist
outside the human mind. 2) Santa Claus only exists in the
human mind. And ANYTHING constructed by him... also
does not exist outside the human mind. 3) tattoo 1 and 2
on your forehead... backwards, so you can read it on a mirror.

Later: "Hey, Pop. How come you've got those two numbers
tattooed on your forehead... backwards?"

S D Rodrian
sdr@t-three.com
http://members.aol.com/prebigbang




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