[RightWhale]

‘Unexpected’ is a fairly thin branch to decorate out like a righteous Christmas tree of anti-science rhetoric. Where did Galileo get off the track? Or if he didn’t, then where did Descartes fail to dig just a little deeper and miss paydirt?

[kinoxi]

Galileo’s mechanics are entirely inadequate, or wrong if you prefer, for analyzing motion on this scale. Two different masses do accelerate at different velocities to any given mass because the gravitational forces combine. A bit petty yes but factually correct. His work was right minded and invaluable. I am very glad that those who came after him did not stubbornly hang on to his models and start adding things like ‘dark matter’ and ten, eleven dimension physics when observation didn’t fit reality. I like it when they are wrong not in a sadistic way. It gives more clues as to the correct interpretations and models they should be forming.