From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Charles Packer   wrote:   
   >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?   
      
   Well, Copernicus is the obvious answer to that one, but a number of folks   
   followed him.   
   --scott   
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