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Re: Lucretius right on falling masses!

From benj <benj.fake@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Lucretius right on falling masses!
Date 2018-10-23 14:02 -0400
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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.

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Lucretius right on falling masses! Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-15 14:40 -0700
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      Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-18 17:00 -0700
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          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
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          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
      Re: Lucretius right on falling masses! yporat08@gmail.com - 2018-10-21 21:36 -0700
        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 - 2018-10-27 12:14 -0700
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