Re: Reconsidering Halton Arp

couldn't they use an arbitrary pendulum, a particular one,
to measure a few experiments?...  of course,
if you look at the "fractal" of a feather,
its density is not just its weight,
divided by what it dysplaces in water; eh?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
 
> Was he really as specific as saying the inverse ratio of their densities?
 
> With error bars small enough to distinguish the truth or falsity of the 
> inverse ratio claim?  I once measured the acceleration of gravity by 
> dropping things from as high as a few dozen feet with a stopwatch in 
> hand.  Once something starts falling, things move pretty fast.  The data 
> showed the right trend, but would not have supported a constant 
> acceleration very well if you'd had other hypotheses in mind.  The Greeks 
> might have gotten higher, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have 
> stopwatches.  Nor did they know how to relate a pendulum's length and 
> period.  For that matter, linear regression analysis hadn't been invented 

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