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Marty McGowan

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Cranford, NJ
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no one is trying to disprove F = ma. it served us well for 2,3 centuries. we did discover its law applied at speeds we are familiar with. late in the 19th C we began to get hints it didn't go far enough. what, just two weeks ago we got confirmation there is reason to say we can confirm the mechanism of gravity. no one doubted gravity's existence for the intervening centuries.

darwin was quite modest about the mechanisms of "descent thru modification by natural selection"....

Posted on 06/30/09 at 09:11 pm in response to Impressive unanimity: The historical significance of Coleman v. Franken

It's a bit of ancient history but the '62 MN gubernatorial election was decided by 91 votes out of one million: http://www.mnhs.org/people/governors/gov/gov_33.htm, and was the subject of the book "Recount", by Prof Charles Backstrom: http://charlesbackstrom.com/ at the U of M.

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