Re: Reconsidering Halton Arp

Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian  Quincy  Hutchings) writes:
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> > couldn't they use an arbitrary pendulum, a particular one,
> > to measure a few experiments?...  
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> An interesting example.  Galileo claimed that the period of a pendulum
> is independent of its amplitude.  As any freshman physics student
> knows, this is false--and it can be checked quite simply.

Galileo also got the tides wrong.

However he got enough right. He gets a C+.

The first A goes to Newton. There was no technology for Newton to get a 
whiff of relativistic mass. Newton gets a B- in optics, since he did not 
do the double slit experiment and he could have.

Aristotle got a D- because he got just about everything wrong.

Bob Kolker