Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Galileo's metaphysics Message-ID: <975@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 02:21:03 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.975 Posted: Sun Feb 5 02:21:03 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 09:33:31 EST References: <881@ihuxr.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 8 Doesn't common sense tell you that heavy objects fall faster than light ones? As the "naive physics" school of A.I. points out, many physical truths are counterintuitive. What Galileo was saying is that you can learn [and unlearn, I might add] a lot about the physical world from a well-designed experiment. Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel