thomblake comments on The Graviton as Aether - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 05 March 2010 01:47:31PM 3 points [-]

Newtonian gravitation successfully explained a huge number of phenomena. Phlogiston did not.

I wouldn't be so sure. (http://www.jimloy.com/physics/phlogstn.htm) But it certainly had other problems.