On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:13 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:
My father, who is an aeronautical engineer, knew the fellow who in the
1940s predicted that bumblebees cannot fly. This was the conclusion
of the fellow's PhD thesis, which ground its way through the
then-current aerodynamic theory of flight to the conclusion on the
last page. He got his degree.
Why? Because the point was that the then-current aerodynamic theory
of flight was inadequate.
Joe Gwinn
And of course that is the point. Understanding of visual perception is
similarly inadequate.
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
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