>> 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.
How Aristotle could have disproved that, you fool? 2015-09-01 10:55 GMT+02:00 Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]>: > 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. > -- 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.
