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Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by jamespandavan

jamespandavan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:40:07 +0000

“In other words, acceleration (due to gravitation) would be product of Gravitational constant, Mass of heavy body (earth/moon) and distance between objects. ”

by that I really meant to say…

“In other words, acceleration (due to gravitation) would be product of Gravitational constant, Mass of heavy body (earth/moon) and INVERSE SQUARE distance between objects” )

Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by vizdotnu

vizdotnu — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:43:44 +0000

Two objects, the moon (m) and hammer (h) affect each other equally and opposite:

Acceleration of hammer caused by moon:
Fh=Mh*Ah=G*Mh*Mm/(r^2)
Ah=G*Mm/(r^2)

Acceleration of moon caused by hammer:
Fm=Mm*Am=G*Mh*Mm/(r^2) (same force as above)
Am=G*Mh/(r^2)

So a larger “hammer” pulls the moon faster even though its own mass is canceled out in its own acceleration equation. And yes, even a feather will pull on the moon even though we could never measure it.

Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by axiomatic272

axiomatic272 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:46:39 +0000

mephesis-you are right about Galileo being right, but wrong about him being murdered.

Check any reputable source, Galileo was censored, misunderstood, ill used, misrepresented, yes all of those. But he was not murdered or otherwise killed as runly1 has correctly pointed out.

Why do people who wish to criticise religion (and you brought the subject up, not me) feel so free to use the same kind of uncorroborated inexactitudes they accuse religion of using?

kind regards

Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by wolverine10mm

wolverine10mm — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:51:11 +0000

very intersting

Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by dycarbon1

dycarbon1 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:01:14 +0000

By censoring Galileo’s IDEAS, and taking away his or anyone else’s right for FREE SPEECH, the church halted human progress for a thousand years! The church advocates the total paralysis of reason and rational thinking and halts any sort of scientific advancements. People are told to not question, not to argue and not to doubt. So yes, I guess the church is pretty good at what it does.

Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by IsawaMitaka

IsawaMitaka — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:31:36 +0000

@dycarbon1 “the church halted human progress for a thousand years!”

So, progress has been halted until around the year 2,600CE?

Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by FFFFbody

FFFFbody — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:39:07 +0000

@mephesis Go fuck yourself. I’m sick of people like you engage in hyperbole. Catholics never murdered him you liberal prick asshole. Infact, the Church put him under house arrest for his own protection from the Protestant hoarde. Just look what the Protestants were doing at the same time in New England (Salem).

Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by FFFFbody

FFFFbody — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:05:35 +0000

@dycarbon1 Wrong buddy. The Church has always advocated the sciences. The Pontifical Academy of Science is the oldest “academy” in the world. The Vatican has a telescope in one of the best places in Arizona. Also, you cannot bring in 18th C. ideas into the 16thC. It isn’t historically honest.
From now on, be careful not to engage in misinformation and hyperbole, because someone will always come along and put you in your place.

Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by dycarbon1

dycarbon1 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:15:53 +0000

@FFFFbody
Science, to the church, is merely a tool which they manipulate to support their personal beliefs about our relationship to the universe. That is NOT how science works. Would you agree with the claim that “AIDs is bad in Africa, but condoms are worse?”

Comment on Galileo Galilei Proven Right by FFFFbody

FFFFbody — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:17:18 +0000

@dycarbon1 Hey buddy, corresponding with you would be a time-killer. I can tell when people are too closed-mindid. Just the words you use “manipulate”