Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site wucec2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!wucs!wucec2!ph From: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: The realm of physics, and the late Immanuel Velikovsky Message-ID: <1181@wucec2.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 10:32:13 EST Article-I.D.: wucec2.1181 Posted: Tue Nov 12 10:32:13 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 08:20:06 EST References: <457@imsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn) Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis Lines: 34 Summary: Ted, go back to net.origins where you belong. In article <457@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes: > I am just an ordinary businessman myself, and know very > little of physics. So THAT'S why you believe Velikovsky's theories. I knew there had to be some reason. > Therefore, when I read or hear about anyone > ridiculing or "debunking" Velikovsky's theories because they > supposedly violate the "laws of physics", I can only assume it is > because they think they know more about physics than Robert Bass > and Albert Einstein. Why do you find that so difficult to believe, Ted? Do you think no progress has been made in the physical sciences since Einstein's day? I notice in net.origins that you seem to have no problem believing that you know more about evolution than Darwin. I believe I know more about physics than Isaac Newton, whose genius was arguably comparable to Einstein's, but I believe that only because I am familiar with his work and the work of his successors. In any case, who believes in a theory is not nearly as relevant as whether it stands up logically on its own, which Velikovsky's theories definitely do not. Ask the people in net.philosophy about the validity of arguments from authority, if any of them will talk to you. Please restrict yourself in the future to net.origins, where people are patient (:-) and interested (:-) (:-) enough to listen to your babblings. --pH /* * "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is named Iluvatar, * and he made the Ainur, the Holy Ones, who were the offspring * of His thought, and were with him ere aught else was made. * And he propounded to them great themes . . ." */