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Burgy:==
>>
>>What you wrote, "But there has never, to my knowledge, been a case when a
>>physical law was found to be false by new evidence," is still an absurdity.
>>
Kevin:==
>
>And yet you still cannot or will not give even one example to prove me
>wrong, or explain what physical law Einstein or any other scientist proved
>wrong. Making bald assertions you either cannot or will not defend is the
>height -- or should I say depth -- of absurdity.
>
OK, how about Descartes' law of refraction? I doubt it was actually
called by this name, however, the law was firmly established and
almost universally accepted. The law goes like this:
Suppose light travels from medium 1 (where it has velocity v1)
into medium 2 (velocity v2). Let the angle of incidence be
theta_i and the angle of refraction theta_r. In concise
mathematical form, the law states:
v2/v1 = sin(theta_i)/sin(theta_r)
Brian Harper
Associate Professor
Applied Mechanics
The Ohio State University
"He who establishes his arguments
by noise and command shows that
reason is weak" -- Montaigne