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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!newsserver.technet.sg!nuscc!matmcinn
  2. From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Brett McInnes)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA (A1) EXPLAINS GRAVITATION
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec10.044056.245@nuscc.nus.sg>
  6. Date: 10 Dec 92 04:40:56 GMT
  7. References: <abian.723938854@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu>
  8. Organization: National University of Singapore
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  12. abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian) writes:
  13. : Hardcastle: listen carefully, I shall say this only once.
  14. : you write:
  15. :  
  16. : >Physicists *do not have* to explain 'why' gravity works. Physics is about
  17. : >observing phenomena and inducing generalities from them:. 
  18. :  such as  THE SUN RISES BECAUSE THE ROOSTER CROWS !!
  19. :  
  20. I suppose it had to happen. Abian finds somebody whose understanding of
  21. what physics is about is as frantically conventional as his own is
  22. frantically ridiculous.
  23.