ShootMyMonkey
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Not to nitpick, since I know what you meant... but didn't the principle of relativity go all the way back to Galileo?ThetaOmega said:Indeed, I hear that Newton guy was a total ignoramus when it came to relativity.
On a more on-topic note, I saw these recently --
My face was in great pain.The sun is always somewhere between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, a distance admitted to be less than 3,000 miles; how then can the sun if it be so many thousand miles in diameter, squeeze itself into a space of about 3,000 miles only...can a camel ride on a mouse, or a whale rush down the throat of a herring?
What is the diameter of the sun?
32 miles. If the navigator neglects to apply the sun's semi-diameter to his observation at sea, he is 16 nautical miles (nearly) in calculating the position his ship is in. A minute of arc on the sextant represents a nautical mile, and if the semi-diameter be 16 miles, the diameter is of course 32 miles. And as measured by the sextant, the sun's diameter is 32 minutes of arc, that is 32 nautical miles in diameter. If ever disproof is attempted, it will be a literary curiosity, well worth framing.
That was also after someone sent me this link from the great wingnut lord Len Horowitz telling me that it's something worth considering.