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Re: heat is a form of energy

I'm not sure what the 'cognitively' business is all about but didn't
Einstein get the RIGHT answer for the precession of Mercury's orbit
etc??

But we still won't start physics education with QED and GR.

At 12:07 PM -0700 9/8/99, Leigh Palmer wrote:
At 8:49 AM -0700 9/8/99, William Beaty wrote:

>...and Newton's laws are cognitively flawed because they don't incorporate
>relativistic concepts. They have limited application. We should stop
>using them?

Explain to me how they are cognitively flawed. I'm unaware of any
problem there.

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