The Implements of a Cosmic Heretic

[Asgard]

with these simple tools one man was able to topple an entire universe. unfortunately modern-day mainstream cosmologists despite all their technical innovations have completely disregarded the lesson he taught even though they vaunt his name so highly.

Galileo's Instruments of Discovery
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[Total Science]

Why this is in New Insights and Mad Ideas is a mystery.

There is nothing new about Galileo.

"The present does not seem to be the proper time to investigate the cause of the acceleration of natural motion [i.e., gravity], concering which various opinions have been expressed by various philosophers, some explaining it by attraction to the center, others to repulsion between the very small parts of the body, while still others attribute it to a certain stress in the surrounding medium which closes in behind the falling body and drives it from one of its positions to another." -- Galileo Galilei, physicist, 1638

[Asgard]

since there is no forum labeled 'General' i decided that this would be the most appropriate forum to share something which i thought was interesting and relevant to those who share Galileo's spirit for the quest for objective observational evidentially-based truth over the entrenched dogmatic fallacies which pollute the minds of the promulgaters of officialdom. whether or not every single aspect of his beliefs has been shown to bear validity is inconsequential to the fact he is an icon in the arena of questioning authority and his example still serves to inspire because despite centuries of advancement our current system is no less capable of creating 'Galileos' out of those who threaten the orthodoxy than it was back then. so while this may not qualify as a new insight it is undoubtedly a mad idea that this would still would be the case.

and the possibility that he may have been the first person to identify a previously unknown planet would seem to contradict the notion that his discoveries are bereft of further investigation.

It has long been known that Galileo observed Neptune, but it was thought that he discounted the object as a star and gave it no further thought. But it turns out Galileo may have known the "star" had moved in relation to other stars, Jamieson reveals. That sort of movement would have caught Galileo's attention, since he knew that it was just the sort of thing planets did. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31835303