Quoting Neville Jones <njones@xxxxxxxxx>: > > -----Original Message----- > From: art@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:24:38 +1100 > > > > You skillfully gloss over all my comments. Anyway... > > Your comments were statements, not questions. "You should know that," "You > should also know that," "You should also know," these were all statements. My > choosing to not dispute them does not necessarily mean that I have glossed > over them. I could, for example, be in complete agreement with you that I > should know this, that or the other. You should (and probably do) regard it > as highly likely that I do know what you were referring to. However, the > issue at hand has nothing to do with diffraction theory, nor with adaptive > optics, either NGS, nor LGS. > You brought it up. You made some very misleading comments, and I explained why they were misleading. > > ... If, on the other hand, we find that one of the founding assumptions of > > the theory, does not hold, then we will have to discard the theory all > > together, pending confirmation by other groups. And then it is back to the > > drawing board to try to come up with a theory that encompasses both the old > > and the new observations. That is science. ... > > > > > This will apply to just about the entire field of astronomy if we can > > > demonstrate that one of the founding assumptions of heliocentrism is wrong. > > > Would you agree?Neville. > > > > That's what I wrote. > > But it also goes for your theory of a geocentric Universe. > > I would like your confirmation of that. > > No problem. I hereby confirm that a demonstrable flaw in the founding > assumptions of a geocentric universe would render the model built upon those > assumptions untenable.Neville. > Good. Regner Trampedach