[lbo-talk] Baby thoughts

[Voyou]

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:01 -0400, Shane Mage wrote:
> iterations.  Hence "modern" physics' invention of "dark energy" and  
> "dark matter"--entities with much less empirical basis than the  
> epicycles of Ptolemaic astronomy.

Not that this is any reason to reject them - the Copernican theory has
no more empirical basis than Ptolemaic epicycles, either. This is also a
good illustration of how modern science differs from what babies do in
looking at the world and figuring stuff out; modern science is all about
how to set aside ones immediate empirical experience in favor of
theoretical constructions which are more true than immediate experience.

-- 
Voyou <voyou1 at gmail.com>