tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212234230338648875.post2498468850404608491..comments2024-03-27T20:43:05.862-07:00Comments on The Eternal Universe: A Great History Of The Evidence For Dark Matter.Joseph Smidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02583891162785742138noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212234230338648875.post-70608029603780092272010-06-28T02:29:14.635-07:002010-06-28T02:29:14.635-07:00Apparently it is really dark as you introduce it b...Apparently it is really dark as you introduce it by your article, and could be explained in a Cartesian manner:<br />“Conjectures and refutations”, chapter 3, part 3, by Karl R. Popper<br /><br /> About Newton:<br /><br /> … This explains that he did very deeply feel the unfinished character of his theory, also the necessity to consider gravity. “That Gravity, writes Newton (See the letter to Richard Bentley, 25th of February 1692-3 (so 1693); see also the letter of the 17th of January.), is innate, inherent and essential in matter, in such a way that a body can act on an other at a distance […] is for me a so huge absurdity that I believe that no person a minimum competent in philosophy will never can fall in this error.” <br /><br />A bit further:<br /><br /> “Nonetheless, Newton was an essentialist. He did devote some important efforts in order to search for an ultimate explanation for gravity which could be acceptable by trying to deduce the law of the attraction from the hypothesis of a mechanical thrust, only type of causal action admitted by Descartes because the only one which can be explained by the essential propriety of all bodies, extent. But he did not succeed in it. And we can be sure that if he did succeed, he should have considered that his problem did receive its final solution and that he did find the ultimate explanation of gravity…”Serge Le Coz L'Eternelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07223106494481146426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212234230338648875.post-56167506878687148802010-06-26T02:01:20.594-07:002010-06-26T02:01:20.594-07:00"...indicating that the vast majority of the ..."...indicating that the vast majority of the matter is matter we don't understand."<br /><br />Sometime some persons say that God is just good in order to explain what we do not understand (what is false), but it seems that the word "Dark" can do this job quite well ;) .Serge Le Coz L'Eternelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07223106494481146426noreply@blogger.com