Re: Reconsidering Halton Arp

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

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

Aristotle got a lot right.  He wrote something like three or four
times as much biology as physics.  Most of what he wrote in the
Physics is fine.  (Of course, it's actually totally wrong, in the same
was that Newton's physics is totally wrong.  But it's right, in the
way that Newton's is right.)

As for the biology, Charles Darwin said that Aristotle was the
greatest biologist before Linnaeus.  

> 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.

Newton could have looked at the bending of light around the sun during
eclipses. 

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

You get an F, because you get everything wrong.

Thomas