Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-b.proxad.net!nnrp3-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: The failure of the unified field theory means general relativity fails. From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) Reply-To: jjlxa31@xs4all.nl (J. J. Lodder) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 10:48:47 +0200 References: <693b1f71c994c268d60983eb81fc6aaa@www.novabbs.com> <6675e44b$0$11435$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <30afac2dd572fd4a163ff412d969e17d@www.novabbs.com> <667698af$0$3329$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Organization: De Ster Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.8.5 (ea919cf118) (Mac OS 10.12.6) Lines: 35 Message-ID: <6677e16f$1$11724$426a74cc@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jun 2024 10:48:47 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.10.137.58 X-Trace: 1719132527 news-1.free.fr 11724 213.10.137.58:52284 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Bytes: 2134 Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote: > On 2024-06-22 09:26:07 +0000, J. J. Lodder said: > > > LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote: > > > >> It will take more than vacuous denials if you want to be convincing. > >> Try this: > >> "FRAMING HYPOTHESES: Conceptions of gravity in the 18th and 19th > >> centuries" > >> Frans van Lunteren c.1991 > > > > In the 18th century they already knew > > that gravity is caused > > by the accumulation of phlogiston. > > > > See: "Flogiston en andere nieuwlichterij" (Frans van Lunteren) > > > > > > for an up to date reference, > > (learn Dutch first to keep you busy) > > Not necessary. Google Translate does a good job with Dutch. I know, it was just a random hit. Most of the writings of Van Lunteren are in English. I thought it very strange that our Laurence quotes a work by a philosopher/historian of science about fumblings for theories from two hundred years ago as if it is a research work with relevance for today's research, Jan