Jack Havig and Robert Anderson discuss time travel which, according to scientific theory, is impossible because, among other things, it violates conservation of energy. Anderson quotes:
"'E pur si muove.'" (p. 46)
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Havig echoes Everard that Galileo did not say it and adds that he did not drop weights from the Tower of Pisa either. Time travel fiction can impart historical information, particularly the Time Patrol series.
2 comments:
Nevertheless, it -does- move... 8-).
I think the Inquisitors were moved by a subconscious realization that religion was common sense when a motionless earth was the center of a tiny universe and only 6000 years old.
When you know the uniuverse is 13.7 billion years old and that we are a moving flyspeck on the fringe of one of hundreds of millions of galaxies, things become different...
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