Re: The End of Science

[George Spagna <gspagna@rmc.edu>]

At 07:33 PM 7/28/96 -0600, Jim Green wrote:
> 2)  A Tom Coony (?) was mentioned -- just passes -- has ideas about "new
> paradigms" etc  Who is *he*?

Thomas Kuhn, author of "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"


> 3)  Isn't this the same thinking as in physics circles at the turn of the
> century?  We have learned all there is to know about physics -- oh yes we
> haven't explained the thermal emission curve nor perhaps the photoelectric
> effect, but other that these trivialities, we know pretty much all there is
> to know about physics.  

Yes  -  ironically notable in claiming this was Albert A. Michelson!

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