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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Message-ID: <1316@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:30:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.161226.1740@ugle.unit.no> <1992Nov3.170646.11593@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <6163@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <6163@tuegate.tue.nl> johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:
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- >Why should there be such area's? 3000 years ago people explained
- >lightning with Donar, the god of lightning. Now we know it's
- >electricity. Give me one (1) goog reason why this shouldn't happen
- >with anything.
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- Are you so sure that in 3000 years our present understanding of electricity
- will not more resemble Donar than what will be current? But does the fact
- that you must use what is sure to become a pitifully limited understanding
- like Maxwell's equations mean that you don't have a clue about what's going
- on?
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
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