Originally posted by J. Arthur God:
Are you not a member of the science community? Are you not a scientist?
Yes I am trying to be a scientist with an open mind. There are scientists and scientists. I agree with dr_rocket; it is my opinion that Galileo was not persecuted by the Church but by his fellow scientists who advised the Church. I think we are largely back in those times. For example, the BCS theory of superconduction cannot explain why there cannot be an electric field between two contacts to a superconductor, but it is instinctively defended because "it is already in textbooks". "We do not need a new model for the low temperature superconductors". Why not? All possible models should be considered objectively.
I am off to the African bush to visit my ancestors. See you guys again next week! [/qb]
Just because Gallileo's theory wasn't originally accepted doesn't mean that all theories initially rejected are correct.
Perhaps you need to "objectively" consider that your theory has been considered "objectively".
Sometimes an objective review of a new theory results in a rejection.
