ockham opened this issue on Nov 03, 2007 · 100 posts
kawecki posted Thu, 08 November 2007 at 5:58 PM
Quote - A friend of mine did an engineering postgrad, and his doctoral thesis, based on materials, was a two part examination of the facts that, according to known laws of physics and engineering, a) the Clifton Suspension Bridge should have collapsed the minute the first coaches began to cross it, and b) the drive shaft of the Austin Allegro should have sheared immediately upon reaching 30mph. Now, whilst I'm no physicist or engineer, and couldn't follow his arguments, the fat that he got his doctorate suggests that there are definitely some things which current scientific understanding cannot explain!
This is how actual scence works, it remembers me Aristotle and his fly with four legs, he should have been reproved.
What is important is how nice and how correctly is applied the theory and not if the predictions match the observed reality, in worst case the reality is changed to match the theory and never the theory analised to find what is wrong.
Stupidity also evolves!