Re: TDD: Test-Driven Design or Test-Driven Development?

From: Shayne Wissler (thalesNOSPAM000_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:38:21 GMT

"Robert C. Martin" <unclebob@objectmentor.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:56:00 GMT, "Shayne Wissler"
> <thalesNOSPAM000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >This is also off the track. Newton didn't know all, we don't know all
today
> >(for all we know, there is an ether of some sort that hasn't been
> >identified). That doesn't change the fact that we know for certain that
the
> >planets revolve around the sun--a scientific idea that used to be
> >controversial and had to be proven.
>
> I'm not a GR geek, but I seem to recall that Einstein showed that
> there is no special frame of reference.

It's more true to say that frames of reference are devices that we create.
They do not exist in reality.

> A geocentric view is just as
> valid as a heliocentric view. If we choose Earth as a "stationary"
> frame of reference, the motion of the Universe wheeling around us set
> up the necessary gravitational fields to keep the system stable and
> support the motions we see.

I'm sure that Einstein did not promote this view, it is quite unphysical. A
gravitational field is not an arbitrary mathematical construct, it is a real
effect, as again my chair will attest.

Shayne Wissler

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