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Re: Crooked and Straight Geometry

From	Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics.relativity
Subject	Re: Crooked and Straight Geometry
Date	2023-11-23 14:13 +0100
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On 2023-11-23 07:00:58 +0000, Thomas Heger said:

> Am 22.11.2023 um 16:59 schrieb Volney:
> 
> 
>>> Anyhow: my hypothesis (Winston Churchill was 'Jack-the-Ripper') was
>>> most likely wrong, but it is still a valid hypothesis and not as crazy
>>> as you think.
>> 
>> No, it is 'crazy as a loon' crazy.
> 
> You simply don't understand the scientific method.

And you do? You've never provided any evidence that you do. What 
scientific discoveries have you made that have been published in 
respectable (not vanity) journals?
> 
> This method is based on the idea, that you should make up your mind and 
> set up a hypothesis, which could eventually explain a certain 
> observation.
> 
> Then you need to test your hypothesis, e.g. in an experiment.
> 
> But usually you would first try to disprove it by showing, that it is 
> actually impossible what you assume.
> 
> 
> E.g. if you show, that Winston Churchill could not possibly have been 
> in Whitechapel at the time of the murders, you had made the assumption 
> impossible and had rejected that claim.
> 
> But neither experiment nor such a proof are possible, because Churchill 
> had been in London in that era and experiments are impossible today.
> 
> so: what next?
> 
> Maybe we need to talk to witnesses or collect other evidence.
> 
> But that's also impossible, because the events are longer ago than 
> people usually live.
> 
> Maybe we ask contemporaries about their impressions.
> 
> Not possible neither, but we have contemporary statements:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxFaWrvgneQ
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN9aaZDI-No
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> TH


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 36 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.

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