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   Helpful person to Helmut Wabnig   
   Re: Speed of light and time quantization   
   18 Aug 13 04:55:23   
   
   From: rrllff@yahoo.com   
      
   On Friday, August 16, 2013 1:38:09 AM UTC-4, Helmut Wabnig wrote:   
   >   
   > I prefer to follow Isaac Newton, who said:   
   >   
   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotheses_non_fingo   
   >   
   > Meaning thereby:  I do not feign hypotheses.   
   >   
   > w.   
      
   This is truly an important precept for science.  However, without imagination,   
   extrapolation of observations, and shear fictional thought many great advances   
   would have been delayed, maybe for decades.  The first one to come to mind is   
   relativity.   
      
   http://richardfisher.com   
      
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