Re: VMs: Re: Leo Levitov questions

[Andrew Sweeney <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/10/2004, at 3:49 AM, Jacques Guy wrote:

> 14/10/2004 4:44:35 AM, Ronald Lorenzo <rlorenzomba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > However, as the philosopher Richard
> > Rorty stated, truth is a social construct.
>
> So is gravitation.
>
> Get up to a fifth floor, any fifth floor. Open a window.
> Jump out. See? The effects of gravitation have been
> proved true. So you are the victim of a social construct.
> You've been socially oppressed. How does it feel to be
> at the deconstructed end of the stick?
>
> Next stupidity, please, this _is_ entertaining.

;)

Jumping out of a window introduces one to the effects of falling. 
Falling is a phenomenon; it's been around since Adam. Gravitation is 
the theory; it's been around only since Newton. It'll be revamped 
sooner or later, e.g. as quantum gravity. But no matter what changes 
are made to the theory of gravitation, we'll still experience falling. 
(Although when Einstein introduced relativity, it became a fact that a 
body now fell somewhat differently than it did under Newtonian 
gravitation.)

Regards,
Andrew

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