[Craig, previously]
> 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 formulated a law
> of gravity.
This misses the point. Neither Plato (nor anyone else) needs a law of gravity
(nor do many people know one) in order to feel what they feel when they swing.
[Dan]
> 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.
Not really. I don’t think the final word is in, regarding gravity.
It could turn out to be much different than we think. (Gravitons, anyone?)
[Dan]
> 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
This misses the point. Neither Plato (nor anyone else) needs a law of gravity
(nor do many people know one) in order to feel what they feel when they swing.
[Dan]
> 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.
Not really. I don’t think the final word is in, regarding gravity.
It could turn out to be much different than we think. (Gravitons, anyone?)
[Dan]
> 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.
Why not?
Craig
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