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Originally Posted by harmonygirl Hey Guille can you explain why you believe it to be wrong? |
Two guys in the time and place of Plato, one of them called Democritus, the other I don't know and it doesn't matter, hypothesized that the universe wasn't made of the four elements as Greek mythology, presocratic philosophy, and all the way to Plato had believed, but of indivisible particles, that is, atoms. More than twenty three centuries later, a few discoverments about the nature of cellulas lead to molecules, and these to the revival of the idea of atoms. In 1905 Einstein proved their existence mathematically. Not very much later Bohr developed the atomic model explained to me in school nearly two years ago. Experiments of all kinds in the 20th century have proven their existence in many ways, and that of their structure. Also, other scientific ideas, like space-time, the falsity of euclidean geometry (gauss&riemann alternatives), maxwell's electromagneticoptical unification, the alchimian discoverment of fire as a non-element but pure reaction... Have proven that the world is not made of the famous 4 elements and that the shapes they have in particle is not that, in fact, they are believed 8for me wrongly) to be zero dimensional. The thing is that the theory is wrong. Ignoring the facts doesn't make them dissapear. Einstein was a good physicist, but not a good man for life; he said we shoudl change the data if it doesn't match the theory, and that's stupid, even for a philosopher (it is what those I most hate; politicians (except lenin and Heidegger), economists (not that I hate all money makers, that includes my father etz), lawyers (not that I hate you)... do). The theory is over the practice, and you cannot be one on the other.