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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 12:14:25 +0000
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On 08/12/2024 08:13, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 00:31:44 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
>>     Careful ... the "luminiferous aether" WORKED - at least with the
>>     existing physics
> 
> When Galileo was doing his best to piss off the pope  Ptolemy's geocentric
> model gave more accurate predictions than the Copernican heliocentric
> model. Yes, it was complcated but it WORKED.

The epicycles are merely a co-ordinate transform of the heliocentric model.

Galileo's problem was his insistence that his model, was *real*.

A mistake scientists still make.



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  “A leader is best When people barely know he exists. Of a good leader, 
who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say, 
“We did this ourselves.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching