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To: trashcanbred
Wow an easy buck. Copernican Theory - Earth and other solar system objects circle the Sun.

I see you are completely ignorant of science. Theories are never "proven true". They can be "proven false" by simple contradiction, or they can be found to be "in accord with currently known facts" if not yet contradicted.

Wikipedia notes: "Scientific theories are never proven to be true, but can be disproven." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory)

This is elementary 7th grade science. I guess you slept through that.

168 posted on 02/23/2006 5:37:29 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
This is elementary 7th grade science. I guess you slept through that.

From the book: Essentials of Computational Chemistry, 2nd Edition

Occasionally, a theory has proven so robust over time, even if only within a limited range of applicability, that it is called a ‘law’. For instance, Coulomb’s law specifies that the energy of interaction (in arbitrary units) between two point charges is given by E = q1q2 år12 (1.2) where q is a charge, å is the dielectric constant of a homogeneous medium (possibly vacuum) in which the charges are embedded, and r12 is the distance between them.

176 posted on 02/23/2006 6:37:31 AM PST by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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