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Right? Might as well be critical of public schools not teaching object oriented programming in the 1950's. And that's why my parents can't program, because scho

• coldtea 10y ago
  Well, how about refraining from teaching BS state of the art? Newton's theory wasn't proven wrong -- just inefficient at larger units / speeds, and was superseded by a more accurate theory that still gives the same results (more or less) for regular everyday observations. Contrast with the kind of dietary advise of the 70s/80s which has been totally reversed. It wasn't "correct, but not entirely accurate", it was irrelevant, or worse, opposite, of what actually holds (according to what science says today).
  • majewsky 10y ago
    Newton's theory was proven wrong: astronomers have observed movement patterns of celestial bodies which Newton's theory did not predict. But that doesn't change the fact that the first-order description of the planets' movements that Newton's theory produced is correct. And it doesn't change the fact that Newton's theory describes very accurately all types of motion across which we come in our daily life. Facts always are true or false forever. If something can be considered true one day and false the next one, it never was a fact. It's just a theory.