On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:31:11PM -0600, Peter Lissaman wrote:
>
> Thirty years of brilliant orbital mechanics in the space programs have
> proven a solid validation of Newtonian Calculus. And, Yes, Virginia, there
> is a Saint Isaac, and those simple laws hold here, on the moon and
> everywhere
First, the title refers to mine own "ignorant vaporings"! I have been
following the discussion about the putative non-existence of a point and
its spatial and temporal derivatives with great interest, but I must be too
stupid to understand the issue.
I have a smattering of mathematics; that I stu
