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The video debunks your explanation, besides some others.
This is only some theoretical explaination and we dont really have some experience that confirm the detail of the phenomenon.
But we do. We can measure ε for all sorts of materials and all sorts of frequencies, and the refraction of electromagnetic radiation likewise.
I am talking about the same explaination, this one starting at time t=717.So he is not debunking "my" explaination (it is not mine it is his own).
But measuring ε do not explain anything.
How do you measure ε for all sorts of materials and all sorts of frequencies?
How would you explain refraction of X-ray in glass, which is refracted to the opposite direction than visible light?
You might think that ε doesn't explain anything, but that's only because you do not understand the science.
So you do not understand how science work.
The fact that you dont understand that the refraction phenomenon need some additionnal experimentation
Science do not rely only on reasoning
How do you measure ε for all sorts of materials and all sorts of frequencies?How is it affected by environmental factors like temperature and pressure, also external electric and magnetic fields?
Guess again.Some bits of science were derived by reasoning.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experimentGalileo famously did the "tower of Pisa" experiment in order to convince other people; but he already knew what the answer must be.
Although the extract does not convey the elegance and power of the 'demonstration' terribly well, it is clear that it is a 'thought' experiment, rather than a practical one. Strange then, as Cohen says, that philosophers and scientists alike refuse to acknowledge either Galileo in particular or the thought experiment technique in general for its pivotal role in both science and philosophy. (The exception proves the rule – the iconoclastic philosopher of science, Paul Feyerabend, has also observed this methodological prejudice.[9]) Instead, many philosophers prefer to consider 'Thought Experiments' to be merely the use of a hypothetical scenario to help understand the way things are.
What additional experiments do you think we need?
Quote from: Bored chemist on 28/08/2022 13:59:05What additional experiments do you think we need?Some experiences linked with the verbal explanation.Science is not only a matter of an expsilon value in a formula, it is the mater of how phenomenons are build.Per example the refraction formula do not take in account the temporality of the full phenomenon, but unfortunatly the explanation use temporality : So the theoritical explanation is not well linked with the real phenomenon (per example).
Read again.He dident already know (scientists do not know like that, only mathematicians and philosopher do), he supposed he was right, or there would be some paradox.
OK, this time try answering the question with examples of the additional experiments you think we need.
And, because we know that reality does not create paradoxes, he knew he was right.
He had, however, formulated an earlier version which predicted that bodies of the same material falling through the same medium would fall at the same speed....
Fortunately there is no evidence that he actually did the Pisa experiment, since the effect of air resistance would indeed have slowed the lighter object more than the heavier one and thus set science back until David Scott demonstrated the truth of the thought experiment on the Moon in 1971.