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   On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 19:53:38 -0500 (EST), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   I hadn't heard this before. Could you identify one of these   
   many people or cite a source for the assertion?   
      
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