What most astonishes me of this modern world is how plain stupid nonsense can become common sense by repetition if that serve the purpose to denigrate the past.
>> Aristotle believed that heavy objects fell more quickly than light ones, *something that could have been easily disproved* *even on his own day *but he understood it so well, or thought he did, that he didn't bother to make any observations on the matter. 2015-09-01 5:14 GMT+02:00 meekerdb <[email protected]>: > On 8/31/2015 3:19 PM, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 2:14 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >>> >> >>> Aristotle >>> believed that heavy objects fell more quickly than light ones, >>> something that could have been easily disproved even on his own day but he >>> understood it so well, or thought he did, that he didn't bother to make any >>> observations on the matter. >>> >> >> > >> But he did observe that a rock fell faster than a leaf. He also believed >> that an active force was necessary to sustain motion because he observed >> that if you stopped pulling a wagon it came to a halt. >> > > > Pure logic can't prove that a physical theory is correct but it can prove > that it's wrong i > f > it's self contradictory and Aristotle's theory was. > > If you take a heavy rock and tie it to a slightly lighter rock with some > string that has some slack in it and drop them then both rocks would fall > slower than the big rock alone because the slower moving lighter rock would > bog it down, but the tied together object > > would fall faster than the heavy rock because the new object is heavier > than the heavy rock alone. > > > Suppose he'd done this with a leaf and a rock. He'd have found it > depended on whether they were just tethered together or tightly bound. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
