[Avodah] Geocentrism

[David Riceman]

RDC:

<<But it's important to remember that laws of physics are descriptive 
rather than prescriptive. The world doesn't "follow" the laws of 
physics. We make certain observations about the universe, and we then 
attempt to come up with a consistent set of rules -- a model of physics 
-- that elegantly explains it.>>

I don't think that's true.  A hint in your own paragraph is the elision 
from "descriptive" to "explains".  That is, physicists don't think they 
are making a convenient summary of how the world works; they think that 
the possibility of such a convenient summary implies something deep 
about the structure of the world which helps explain that structure.

And their objection to geocentrism is precisely that it denies the value 
of that deep explanation.

David Riceman