| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 23 Apr 2001 at 22:50:56 |
| Subject: | Re: Common misconception (was Re: Voyager Image Decoders) |
Hello neil@tkgbbs.freeserve.co.uk
On 23-Apr-01, you wrote:
> HIhi
> On Monday April 23 2001, Matt Sealey said to All:
>
>> and get the facts so wrong? It's like proving some odd physics equation
>> years after they negated it's worth with Quantum Mechanics.
>
> <tangent> Bad comparison. People still use Newton's Laws (and base new
> work on them) even though Relativity gives different results on some scales
> (e.g. the orbit of mercury is larger than the space it appears to occupy).
Strangely that was what I was thinking of when I said it.. Newton's laws
don't accurately predict the curvature of space that close to the sun, though,
and in this example it would be like inventing some new cosmological
constant (ho ho!) or another planet to explain away the value away and
keep your equations correct, even though they HAVE explained why it
happened. Right? :P
Thanks
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