[Phys-L] Re: Quotation

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

At 11:32 AM 4/24/2005, Pentcho Valev wrote:
> [quoting] Bryan Wallace:
>
> "I expect that the scientists of the future will consider the dominant
> abstract physics theories of our time in much the same light as we now
> consider the Medieval theories of how many angels can dance on the head of
> a pin or that the Earth stands still and the Universe moves around it."
>
> http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
>
> Pentcho Valev


Quantizing angels on a pin head was a theological research
topic of the middle ages, rather than being at all scientific.

  Still, one COULD point to Galilean Relativity as
a science theory that was all well and good, but inadequate in the
  light of Special and General Relativity.

And one can suppose that as science proceeds, some other theory
  will find S & G Relativity inadequate in the light of some other
  experimental circumstance.

This is the height of science orthodoxy, of course.



Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!
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