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> matters not one iota for numerical simulations such as those performed by aforementioned organisations for aforementioned purposes. So you agree that planetary orbits are computed by numerical simulation as I claim. Then why do you o
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I agree. It's not their fault. What interests me is this: If the eccentricity of planetary orbits is so small, I wonder if we can still uphold the circularity of orbits, but place the sun slightly off center? Will this geometry save th
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I agree. This is why I wrote: “The church was the main supporter of astronomy because of their interest in maintaining an accurate calendar. Christoph Scheiner mentioned in the article was a Jesuite astronomer respected by Galieleo and the
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> I recommend reading [Summa Theologica], particularly... You want me to read Summa Theologica? What for?
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>> Galileo was executed by the Inquisition, > Was only arrested at home, for 10 years (but wrongly convicted) My mistake obviously. I was trying to say “Galileo was tried by the Inquisition. The point was that the Church had ju
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Interesting subject. We can try to know if Cleopatra was beautiful by investigating what we mean by “beautiful” today. I think that we are not talking about beauty but about attractiveness. Or we may say that these words are synonymes. So t
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But what is philosophy? To say that physics excludes philosophy is philosophy. Physics, at its core, is based on a philosophical statement. To choose empiricism as physics' main epistemological method is philosophy. Then there is physi
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> In classical physics, the universe is predictable: If you know the laws that govern a physical system and you know initial state, you should be able to track its evolution indefinitely far into the future. ... [According to physicist D
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>That dynamism stands in contrast to the usual tales we are told about the birth of science, stories portraying the debates around the Copernican theory as occasions when science was suppressed by powerful, entrenched establishments . S
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Thanks for posting. Great article. A word of caution about Kepler's discovery of elliptical orbits. We usually encounter this topic in physics textbooks who illustrate the ellipticity of planetary orbits with highly eccentric ellipses
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> Oh,” he said. “I use a pencil.” But in the Paris Review Interview he mentions writing on a typewriter. He must have changed his habit. https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2226/tom-wolfe-the...
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I write a blog in Turkish. I write about current affairs and also other subjects that interests me. Once in a while I fall into Ecclesiastes type of borderline nihilism and I say to myself "Why write at all; all is vain; all is for nau
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I see this link is locked too. İt asks for a subscription.
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Thanks for these links. How did you get a free version of the Paris Review İnterview? A couple of days ago I tried to read some interviews and it won't let me without a subscription.
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You are right, of course. The text I quoted comes from the abstract. He articulates the same idea slightly differently on the second page: Time is no more defined by a clock than pressure is defined by a pressure gauge, speed by a sp
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> The aether theory... Good example. But physics has a way to bring back old theories under new names, thus “New ether theories”: http://vixra.org/pdf/1708.0318v1.pdf It can also be said that Einstein substituted “s
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> Why do you believe that no evidence could ever convince them? Looking back at the history of physics, can you give me an example of an established physics theory that was discarded by experimental evidence? The worst that can happen is
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To be fair to Stephen Crothers, these are slides, and he bolded some of his conclusions for emphasis. I think it is unfair to raise the issue of crackpotism because he bolded some sentences. You can see in the video that he does not yell a
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I like this quote: > ... time is no more defined by a clock than pressure is defined by a pressure gauge, speed by a speedometer, or gravity by a graded spring. Time is not defined by clocks. It is naturally fixed, manifest in motion, as
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Special Theory of Relativity: Logical Inconsistencies [pdf](vixra.org)
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The book mentioned in the comments is very interesting https://www.amazon.com/Money-Changes-Everything-Civilization... "William H. Goetzmann in “Money changes everything”, a history of the influence of finance on civil
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I think the saying “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution” is for institutions not for individuals. The idea is that for instance The Society to End Hunger will never end hunger because if it does it w
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I think it is a big mistake to introduce Video evaluation into footbal. Main reason is that you would just be taking away the authority of the referee and giving it to a machine and to other referees who will be evaluating the video. The mi
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>corporations display many of the characteristics we typically associate with AI... I agree with your comment. This is how I think about corporations too. But I'd like to mention something about the name "Artificial Intelligenc
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>the decision making of an organisation is simply the decision making of it's personnel. This is also true for animals, including humans. Most of our decisions are made by micro-organisms in our gut, by our microbiome. There are oth
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>what do you mean by 'living', and why does a legal entity fit that notion of living? Do I need to define "living"? I may just list some living organisms everyone agrees that they are living organisms such as animals,
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I consider legal entities such as corporations to be living organisms. So I don't agree that life is limited to organisms with a visible (biological) body.
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>We don't consider something "alive" if its behavior doesn't change when its environment does. I think this is too vague. A cat may continue to sleep without responding to changes in its environment but may respond to
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Is it possible that they measured the distance not height to the reference clock? It takes time for the signal to travel to the reference clock. But I’m not sure about the exact geometry.
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>"Well, there's my professional system of belief, and there's my personal awareness, and I strive to keep them separate at all times." Just for the record, i couldn't manage to do that. Neither could Newton. Actu

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