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   On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 09:37:57 -0500 (EST), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   Of course I know about Copernicus, but he didn't just "pretend"   
   heliocentrism; he proposed it as an actual fact, didn't he?   
      
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