Re: The End of Science

[palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)]

> > Yes  -  ironically notable in claiming this was Albert A. Michelson!
>
> Just because a person can make some interesting, and even important,
> measurements, it does not mean that this person is necessarily at the
> cutting edge of thought about their significance.

I think you miss the point. Michelson was so sure of the completeness
of physics at the end of the nineteenth century that he died believing
that his interferometer result was somehow in error. He didn't believe
in relativity to the very end even though he had contributed its most
convincing demonstration.

Leigh