Well I di say a GENIUS!Some basics like the conservation of momentum can be figured out with some fairly simple experiments and observations.
Which is why a recent poll found that a significant percentage of Americans believe the sun goes round the earth.Until then, they're not going to figure out heliocentrism except as a curiosity--geocentrism seems so much more obvious, and doesn't have any apparent evidence against it.
Let's see, he said that objects fall at different speeds, and went further to say that their speed was proportional to their weight. He just said it, didn't even bother to test it. All anybody had to do was drop a small rock and a big rock from the same height, and they would have discreditted him.
But as would said above, this thread isn't about the merits of science over nonsense.
Which is why a recent poll found that a significant percentage of Americans believe the sun goes round the earth.
There's nothing that has to change except having this guy be more successful:
There's nothing that has to change except having this guy be more successful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaxagoras
How exactly does this help?
He invented heliocentrism centuries before Nicolaius Copernicus did.![]()
He invented heliocentrism centuries before Nicolaius Copernicus did.![]()
But geocentrism has the planets moving with unexplainable forces also and they dont orbit the Earth but dancing epicycle points all copernicus did was put the all around the same epicycle point near the sun.
the greeks didn't exactly have modern timing equipment or a sophisticated way of understanding and measuring air resistance...
anachronism
Galileo used a ramp and some bells. I think the Greeks could have managed that...![]()
And Galileo disproved that by... dropping things.Except they already had (what they thought was) a perfectly good way to achieve the same goal. It just favored the interpretation "heavier things fall faster", is all.
And Galileo disproved that by... dropping things.