From: Robert Comer 

E=MC2 doesn't have anything to do with Nukes.

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Bob Comer




On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:57:44 +0100, Adam
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:

>Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> "Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote in
>> message news:463cf588$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>>> In short, dismissing something called a Theory simply
because it is
>>>>> *called* a theory is intellectual "Luddite-ism".
>>>> Aye, but thinking of it as fact is the same.
>>>>
>>> What has either got to do with "belief"?
>>>
>>> Belief has no requirement for facts whatsoever.
>>>
>>> I do not need to believe that the earth is anything other than flat.
>>>
>>> Until man went into space & esp into orbit I could dismiss
all evidence
>>> to the contrary as "a theory".
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>
>> Not really Eratosthenes (276-194 BC) calculated the circumference of the
>> earth. He also measured the tilt of the Earth's axis and the distance to the
>> sun and the moon.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>&? His theory stated all the above & was shown to be correct.
>
>Many commonly observable things are only described via theory from light
>to gravity to the population of the night sky.
>
>E=MC2 was a theory till Hiroshima.
>
>
>However E=MC2 did not involve belief in a tooth fairy.
>
>Adam

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