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- From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,sci.bio,sci.chem,misc.education
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - NewScientist Article
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.180117.12765@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 18:01:17 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.023025.20353@dmp.csiro.au> <1992Dec14.055311.10343@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec15.032030.7459@dmp.csiro.au>
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- In article <1992Dec15.032030.7459@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
- >crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >
- >As I got on to this thread late, I still have trouble
- >differentiating the attempted theory with the
- >slagging match that is going on. Re:-
- >
- >"STATUS QUO" "RESISTANCE TO CHANGE" "RAVING LOONY" etc etc.
- >
- >How do you differentiate the abuse from the
- >theory?
-
- Can't be done. Abian continually states that those who oppose his
- theory, by virtue of opposing it, prove it to be true. When asked:
- "Well, if we had accepted it, would it then be proved false?" he
- of course said "No! It would still be proved true."
-
- The problem with Abian's theory is not that it does not prove
- anything-- it is that it can be made to prove ANYTHING, even
- false and self-contradictory things.
-
- And I'm sorry about the cross-posting to groups who do not really
- need TIME HAS INERTIA in them. I think I speak for most of
- sci.physics in that we will abide by anyone setting the followups
- to only include us. Usually it is Abian himself who expands the
- "debate" (I use the word in the loosest possible sense) to other
- groups.
-
- Jason
- Where Are The Jasons At Oxford Of Yesteryear?
-