Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS](OT) Mr. Science bad
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:30:31 -0400
To:        <lpny_discuss@yahoogroups.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:28:00 -0400, Blay Tarnoff wrote:
>=A0Bob Armstrong wrote:
>=A0I will if you promise to stop throwing around big concepts you=
 don't
>=A0understand.

 I can read a statement like , eg , in Feynman , Vol 1 , pg 7-2=
 :
  Finally , a third law was discovered by Kepler much later; ...
  This law says ... the periods are proportional to the 3/2=
 power
  of the obit size.
 and apply it . 

>=A0>=A0Your leap from the inverse square law on gravitational
>=A0>=A0force to the speed decreasing by that ratio is wrong .
>
>=A0Maybe. =A0Makes sense to me. =A0I sure wish I had something other=
 than the
>=A0Bob Armstrong presumption as evidence, though.
 
 Well , a little Googling would have taught you that you were 
 wrong .  I'm not so presumptuous as to just make my own leaps=
 --
 at least more than once .
>
>=A0>=A0I won't say I understand the relationship until I do .
>
>=A0You already have when you didn't.
 
 Only in my initial post many messages ago before I pulled out
 my old textbooks .


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