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- From: farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Alchemy
- Message-ID: <Jan.24.10.27.08.1993.23030@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:27:08 GMT
- References: <JOSHUA.93Jan18110540@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> <JOSHUA.93Jan23052643@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>
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- In article <JOSHUA.93Jan23052643@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>, joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes:
- >
- > exactly. and if, in fact, alchemical trasmutation is possible (something
- > on which my opinion is strictly reserved), it would falsify modern nuclear
- > theory to a greater or lesser degree.
-
- I think it would *expand* modern nuclear theory. It cannot falsify it,
- as it has been shown to hold for all the physical processes we have
- been able to measure. Nothing in physics can say what is *not*. It
- only talks about what *is*, and has been *seen*. If you suggest that
- alchemy could proceed by known physical processes, then I could say,
- 'no way.' If you say it proceeds by processes unknown to modern
- science, I say 'gee, I don't know, let's check it out.' ;-) But what I
- know about the nucleus now is not invalidated.
-
- Quantum mechanics and relativity did not falsify Newtonian physics. A
- watermelon thrown from my roof will still hit the ground at the speed
- that Newton predicts. ;-)
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