Re: new to list

From: David G. McDivitt (dmcdivitt@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 18:42:48 MDT


They are created by people. We make them up as we go along. Who else do
you thing, God?

>From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com>
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:02:56 -0400
>
>"David G. McDivitt" wrote:
>>
>> What if the term or objectification "gravity" had not evolved. What if
>> Newton played with electricity enough to call it "electromagnetic
>> attraction" instead. How would that have affected the cosmological
>> models we have today? Would it have saved us some time? It is a shame
>> you think unqualified logic is mumbo jumbo. What is your source of
>> inspiration by the way?
>
>If Newton had called it 'electromagnetic attraction', he would have been
>wrong, and somebody else would have come up with the correct theory of
>gravity. You seem to be suffering from a very Kuhnian delusion that
>physical laws are created by people.

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