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13. All of the advances by those you quote built on the work of others.

Sun Apr 1, 2012, 04:57 PM

Apr 2012

None of them accomplished what they did by idle speculation.

If you want to see the products of idle speculation, look at theology.

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Steady State hypothesized the continuous creation of new hydrogen Speck Tater Mar 2012 #7

Explain the CMB. laconicsax Mar 2012 #9

Yup. That's why steady state in its current form has been discredited. Speck Tater Apr 2012 #10

Idle speculation isn't how progress is made. laconicsax Apr 2012 #11

Two things. Speck Tater Apr 2012 #12

All of the advances by those you quote built on the work of others. laconicsax Apr 2012 #13

What was that famous quote? Speck Tater Apr 2012 #14

And yet, Copernicus didn't idly speculate. laconicsax Apr 2012 #15

Ah, so your real quibble is with the word "idle". Speck Tater Apr 2012 #16

Compressing space won't help DetlefK Mar 2012 #4

Who said the Universe is flat on a cosological scale? tridim Mar 2012 #5

Light isn't sound; space isn't air longship Mar 2012 #6

The WMAP experiment did. laconicsax Mar 2012 #8