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- From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Brett McInnes)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA (A1) EXPLAINS GRAVITATION
- Message-ID: <1992Dec10.044056.245@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: 10 Dec 92 04:40:56 GMT
- References: <abian.723938854@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian) writes:
- : Hardcastle: listen carefully, I shall say this only once.
- :
- : you write:
- :
- : >Physicists *do not have* to explain 'why' gravity works. Physics is about
- : >observing phenomena and inducing generalities from them:.
- :
- : such as THE SUN RISES BECAUSE THE ROOSTER CROWS !!
- :
- I suppose it had to happen. Abian finds somebody whose understanding of
- what physics is about is as frantically conventional as his own is
- frantically ridiculous.
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