From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 19:53:38 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (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 thought Galileo also offended by claiming that various "celestial   
   bodies", allegedly made of the Fifth Element, were in fact very large   
   rocks, made of the mundane elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water).   
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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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