From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Paul S Person   wrote:   
   >This doesn't mean some physics theories don't have mathematics that   
   >/require/ different dimensions, though. Or at least are easier to use   
   >if different dimensions are posited.   
      
   There is a longstanding tradition of this.  Many people posited that it   
   was much easier to do the math by pretending that the earth actually   
   went around the sun instead if the other way around.  What got Galileo   
   in trouble was claming that it actually did.   
      
   >When the Higgs boson was found, it is my understanding that a whole   
   >lot theories died because it contradicted their predictions. Thus,   
   >science marches on with the survivors.   
      
   This is how theories go.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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