Re: OT: Speed of light [was Re: Why not a Python compiler?]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
Robert Bossy wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
After repeated attempts at the tasks set for them in the
experiments, the subjects would learn strategies that would
work in a Newtonian world, but the initial intuitive reactions
were very non-Newtonian (regardless of how educated they were
in physics).

I'm pretty sure we can still hear educated people say that free fall speed depends on the weight of the object without realizing it's a double mistake.

Well, you have to qualify it better than this, because what you've stated in actually correct ... in a viscous fluid.

By definition, that's not free fall.
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