Re: Reconsidering Halton Arp

"Robert J. Kolker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >>
> > I think that Thomas answered this already more than adequately.
> 
> Wrong! Given the medium Aristotle said explicitly that heavier bodies
> would move faster in it, in proportion to their weight. Now drop a one
> pound spherical shot and a ten pound spherical shot through air (the
> medium)  and tell me how they move. Aristotle could have done this
> easily. It is not rocket science.

No, he said that *denser* bodies would fall faster, in proportion to
their *density*, and he is essentially *correct* about this.  (He is
wrong that it is a strict proportionality, of course, but he is
*right* about the relationship.)

Thomas