Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:26:57 -0400
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If we are going to bring Newton into this forum, again, let's go back to
the data. And let's see if we can get it right, this time.
Tycho Brahe made years worth of very careful meticulous observations as to
the positions of the planets, at observed points in time. That's data.
Johannes Kepler studied Brahe's observations for years, and discovered that
the orbits of the planets were elliptical, with one focus at the sun. He
also discovered the "equal areas in equal times" rule for how fast they are
moving. That's analysis.
What Newton added were the laws of motion, and the law of gravitation.
That's physics.
All this talk about how "Newton got it wrong, and Einstein got it right"
is a bunch of claptrap. The people in this forum, for the most part, don't
know what they are talking about.
It's data that Einstein had and Newton did not. Received on Fri May 14 2004 - 22:26:57 CEST