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To: D. Long who wrote (23293)	1/7/2004 4:47:07 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793674

I wonder how much science has been affected by the social inertia of the Academy. Everybody during Galioeo's time knew the Moon was a perfect sphere. Why? Because Aristotle said so. When Galileo made a telescope and invited the top Aristotelian Scientists to look at the Mountains on the moon. They said if they saw them it was because Galileo had bewitched them. Crichton's comment on string theory was that it was based on a premise that could never be proved. There are a lot of heads of Physic's Departments that should be wearing Bishop's robes.