"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> BAM wrote:
> >> I suspect that theoretical physicists from Newton to Einstein to
> >> Wheeler to Hawking would disagree.
> >>
> >> As would a large body of cosmologists and phycical chemists.
> >
> > They can disagree all they want, but the fact is that science is
> > subordinate to philosophy because science begins with assumptions
> > that only philosophy can verify.
> >
> > BAM
>
> I'd like some names of the philosophers who verified why the orbit of
> Mercury does what it does.
Well, see, BAM claims that what philosophers verify is the *assumptions*
that underlie science.
So in the case of Mercury, So what BAM really needs it to tell us
is which philosophers verified that:
-- there can be no distinction between acceleration and
a gravitational field.
-- all observers will observe the same phenomena,
regardless of their realtive motion.
-- the speed of light will be constant regardless
of the motion of the observer and the source.
I'm sure he'll have no problem with that.
-- cary
