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I should correct an important misconception. Epicycles do not produce correct predictions. Epicycles can produce correct point location of planets, but do not
by sanxiyn 8y ago
I should correct an important misconception. Epicycles do not produce correct predictions.
Epicycles can produce correct point location of planets, but do not produce correct phase. Galileo observed heliocentrism-compatible phase of Venus with his telescope. That was the crucial experiment, not the simplicity.
- perl4ever 8y agoI don't think it's important to my point. The point remains that multiple theories can be equivalent in some restricted sense, yet the more aesthetic one might have greater potential.
- ymolodtsov 8y agoBut it matters. All the major interpretations give you the same results (otherwise we’d just test it and rule out the wrong ones).