Galileo's folly

rupol2000

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Galileo, the predecessor of the Newtonian religion, was a rather stupid man. His funny antics, which he passed off as "experiments", would not be taken seriously. For example, he dumped some kind of shit from the leaning tower of Pisa and timed (with an hourglass?) the time of their fall, while it seemed to him that bodies of different masses were falling equally quickly. He claimed that by this "experiment" he "proved the mistake" of Aristotle.
His second "experiment" consisted in the fact that when a person sits in the hold of a ship, he does not know what exactly is moving, the ship or the sea. But anyone who sailed on the ship understands that Galileo was carrying some kind of nonsense, and in fact, sitting on the ship, everyone feels that it is the ship that is moving, because it periodically accelerates, and at high speeds a person is generally pulled into a chair.
 
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