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To: generally
Most theories don’t spring into being full-formed with zero errors.

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I am reminded of a short essay I once read by Albert Einstein about "Theories."

His subject was one of his great predecessors, Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion that led more or less directly to Isaac Newton, and subsequently to Einstein himself.

Einstein's main point was that Kepler's original "Theory" was completely wrong, but it served as a powerful lens through which he painstakingly sifted the data until eventually getting it right.

Even Kepler's reasoning was "wrong" in the eyes of modern science. He theorized that the planetary orbits were circles (they are actually ellipses) set by God according the "perfect" intervals of the musical scale.

Hmm. Kooky, eh?

Without this preliminary theory to drive his research, Kepler would have never developed "Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion" which were so fundamental to the invention of the science of physics.

1,548 posted on 10/10/2018 9:42:02 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian
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To: Disestablishmentarian
Dude. You went full nerd.

Never go full nerd.

#JustKidding

#OrAmI

Bagster


1,591 posted on 10/11/2018 12:52:04 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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