Steve Holden wrote: > Well the history of physics for at least two hundred years has been a > migration away from the intuitive. In strict linguistic terms the word > "subatomic" is a fine oxymoron. I suspect it's really "turtles all the > way down".
Well, hard to say that's been a monotonic pattern. For instance, Aristotelian physics had an awful lot of components that were fairly bizarre, counter-intuitive, or even contrary to easily gained experience. The notion of impetus -- where an object throw moves in a straight line until it runs out of impetus, then falls straight down -- is clearly contrary to everyday experience of watching two people throw a ball back and forth from a distance, since the path of the ball is clearly curved. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. -- Miguel de Cervantes, ca. 1600 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list