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---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:07:48 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Quality-as-pre-conceptual/MOQ as conceptual. > > [Dan] >> who was around billions of years ago to know that there were laws of >> physics in existence dictating the formation of galaxies? > >Craig: > This is a scary theory. If someone were around watching the galaxies > form, then they would have formed differently? Dan: And if pigs could fly how high would they go? > > > [Dan] >> The laws astronomers apply are the result of thinking > >Craig: > Yes, but “the laws astronomers apply” don't determine what > happens. That’s the point of Pirsig’s platypus example: > scientists said an egg-laying mammal was against the laws of biology, > but platypi ignore those scientists. Dan: That's not in dispute. Craig: > If you swing on a swing, there is a point where you will feel weightlessness & > other points where you will not. When Plato swang did he feel the same? > Or was he not able to because there was no gravity then? Dan: I asked you for references concerning whether Plato forulated a law of gravity. The ball is still in your court as you haven't complied. But, that aside, what you're really saying is that you believe so strongly in the law of gravity that you cannot envision a time when it wasn't in force, even thousands and billions of years ago when there was no law of gravity. I could speculate that since Plato did not fly off the face of the earth and out into interstellar space (where he might have observed galaxies forming), there was something like the law of gravity when he was alive. But that something like the law of gravity was not gravity in the sense you think of it. But it's all speculation. I don't know. Neither do you. But I know that I don't know. Thank you, Dan _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Contacts: Organize your contact list. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/marcusatmicrosoft.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!503D1D86EBB2B53C!2285.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_UGC_Contacts_032009 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
