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Old 15-April-2005, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Jerry
Remember, the moons of Jupiter were discounted by Galileo's contemporaries because they were impossible. So were the results of the Michealson Morley experiment. Impossible sometimes means new physics.
The They laughed at Galileo too-argument.
Again a claim without support from evidence: there was a community of researchers in Europe that did not discount Galilei's discoveries and actually checked for themselves, building their own telescopes and doing observations.

And the results of Michelson-Morley's experiment were not discounted: they entered the body of evidence dealing with optical phenomena.
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