Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote:
> > *John Clark **refuses to admit that MATHEMATICS is often applied to the > POSTULATES of physics, * > Postulates yields results that are exact and that's why physics doesn't have any, only mathematics does. > *to give important new insights.* In your original post you weren't talking about finding important new insights, you demanded a mathematical PROOF that Planck's Black Body formula was true. And that's ridiculous. Mathematics can never prove that any physical theory is true, but with experiment and observation we can show that one physical theory is less wrong than another. *> For example, using Newton's Law of Gravitation, it was demonstrated, > using MATHEMATICS, and starting with that POSTULATE, that planetary orbits > are conic sections; a HUGE result!* > Sure it was important to learn that Newton's laws led to conic section orbits if there were only 2 massive objects in the universe, but the only way we could know if that was even approximately true for the planets in our solar system is through observation not through mathematics. And Einstein tells us that Newton's laws are NOT correct and thus even in a 2 object universe orbits would not be conic sections, in fact no orbit would be stable because all orbits involve accelerating mass and accelerating mass produces Gravitational Waves.Gravitational Waves radiate away the orbit's energy so the orbit would always be a slow inward spiral. And a slow inward spiral is not a conic section. John K Clark -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0qsJEcJHZ3NQc6fsAmL2kaLuGkwmOp4%3DZBsEeM36J_Hg%40mail.gmail.com.
