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Re: Lucretius right on falling masses!

From Sergio <invalid@invalid.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Lucretius right on falling masses!
Date 2018-10-23 14:38 -0500
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On 10/23/2018 1:02 PM, benj wrote:
> On 10/23/2018 11:10 AM, Sergio wrote:
>> On 10/16/2018 2:20 PM, mitchrae3323@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Monday, October 15, 2018 at 2:40:33 PM UTC-7, Double-A wrote:
>>>> I have been reading a book by Lucretius 50 BC, "On the Nature of the
>>>> Universe".  Of course he was wrong about some things, but he
>>>> correctly asserted that both light and heavy objects falling in
>>>> space would both fall at the same speed!  This was 1,600 years
>>>> before Galileo!
>>>>
>>>> Double-A
>>>
>>> Light still falls at C... its not ever the same as matter.
>>>                       ^
>>> Mitchell Raemsch
>>>
>>
>> you mean c
>>
>>   C stands for Capacitance
>>
>>
>> and "falls" is incorrect too, light "propagates"
>> fall infers a direction, light traves at the same speed, c, in any
>> direction.
>>
>> and light only travels at c in a vacuum, not in materials.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Light still falls at C" is poor
>>
>> "light propagates at c in a vacuum"
>>
> Attempting to educate the willfully ignorant is really just wasted energy.

agree, this guy thinks he is Roy Masters,  who invented the "Thigh Master"

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Lucretius right on falling masses! Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-15 14:40 -0700
  Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! poraty149@gmail.com - 2018-10-16 00:15 -0700
    Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! poraty149@gmail.com - 2018-10-16 00:17 -0700
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  Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! poraty149@gmail.com - 2018-10-16 01:30 -0700
    Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-16 14:03 -0700
      Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-18 17:00 -0700
        Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-10-19 09:04 -0700
          Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-19 14:35 -0700
            Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-10-20 03:58 -0700
          Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-20 00:35 -0700
          Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-10-25 17:08 -0500
  Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-10-16 12:20 -0700
    Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-16 13:52 -0700
    Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-10-23 10:10 -0500
      Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-23 14:02 -0400
        Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-10-23 14:38 -0500
      Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-23 23:38 -0700
  Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-20 14:02 -0700
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      Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-20 17:31 -0700
    Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-21 15:06 -0700
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        Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 01:51 -0700
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            Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-25 16:53 -0700
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                Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-26 16:00 -0700
                Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-27 00:43 -0700
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                Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-27 18:16 -0700
                Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 09:55 -0700
                Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-27 12:14 -0700
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    Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-25 21:21 -0700
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