Re: Would you agree?

In article <1iblt8l.1nm05yp1pimnx8N%j.wilkins1@xxxxxxxxx>,
j.wilkins1@xxxxxxxxx (John Wilkins) wrote:

Ptolemaic models had epicycles (circles that rotated around an orbiting
point on greater circles) that did not use the center of the universe as
their reference point. They were needed to make observations fall out
("saving the phenomena") but they contradicted the Aristotelian physics
that underlay his cosmology. There were other deviations, all supposed
to "save the phenomena" but it was unclear if they were supposed to be
physical models.

Ah, so the situation then was as it is now; with the contradiction
between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity.

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