I'm with John on this one. Most of our understandings of physics are based
on a terrestrial frame of reference. Check out dark energy for contrast: (01)
http://www.nickull.net/darkenergy.html (02)
Duane (03)
On 9/21/07 7:37 AM, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: (04)
> Azamat,
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> Yes, that is true:
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>> So, antimatter as a form of matter (made of elementary antiparticles)
>> is a kind of substance, the first class citizen of Aristotle's
>> categories.
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> But that is so very general that it hardly says anything. Aristotle
> also developed the form-matter distinction, which doesn't quite fit
> the ten categories. Aristotle's matter does not correspond exactly
> to the modern physicists' concept of matter, which itself undergoes
> major revisions with new discoveries and new theories.
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> As Peirce said,
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> "It is easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague."
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> For some purposes, a vague answer is adequate. But for other purposes,
> it is necessary to deal with the very annoying details that don't fit
> together as nicely as one would hope.
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> John
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