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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 05 August 2014 04:26:28AM *  1 point [-]

Why not also spend an equally amount of time searching for examples that prove the opposite of the point you're trying to make? Or are you speaking to an audience that doesn't agree this is possible in principle?

Edit: Might Newtonian physics be an example?