Re: Tidal bulge, Bohr atom & other myths

[Jim Green <Jim.Green@Snow.edu>]

I'm sorry David, I can't resist:

> This is one of my pet peeves.  The Bohr Atom was dead by the mid-20s (after
> having been proposed in 1913) and still today it is taught.  Maybe we should
> teach Ptolemaic cosmology, caloric, and phlogiston theories while we are at

We *do* still teach the ideas of "caloric"; we now call it that four letter
word "heat" -- evil wicked mean bad and nasty ....

> it.  (Teaching this stuff as part of a historical background and as a context
> for the development the modern ideas of science is one thing; teaching it as
> a viable explanation for how nature works is another.) 
>
> David Bowman
> dbowman@gtc.georgetown.ky.us




Jim.Green@Snow.edu                             

It has never been detemined if the 
early bird enjoys the worm as much 
as the late bird enjoys the extra sleep