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From: charlie@cca.UUCP (Charlie Kaufman)
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Subject: Earth Centered Universe
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Date: Mon, 18-Jul-83 17:50:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 18 17:50:42 1983
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My earlier claim that relativity admits to no preferred frame of
reference has caught a lot of flak.  I still believe my physics is right
- though I should have specified general relativity.  But I'm no expert.

In any case, my point is still valid:  scientific "knowledge" is subject
to change without notice.  Science searches for "the best" explanation
for a given set of facts, not the only one.  To some degree, "best" is a
matter of taste.  Creation science is a good example of going to extreme
lengths to fit facts to a theory.  The "Flat Earth Society" is an even
easier target.  But science will never "prove" either of them wrong;
that's not what science does.

                          --Charlie Kaufman
                            charlie@cca
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