Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

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