It's the little things that count. Like Goofus, having been stripped of what credibility he ever had, slipping in a question mark as to whether I understand physics.

let me help you here.

I don't.

However, I have published a PhD thesis on a small matter that uses known and demonstrably accepted classical physics calculations in order to prove my point.

if there were an alternative to science (this thread used to be about that, remember?) then I wouldn't have to had to explain why Newton's bucket could still be relevant in a relativity aware world. No, I'd just have to say the little baby Jesus makes vibrator motors produce 4 g of force on the system and God decreed that this, at an acceptable angle of incidence, is enough to transport bulk solids within an range of density.

Here's the rub. God might have decreed it. After all, there is no alternative answer as to why. But as I was dabbling in the world of science, I have no right to make such a conclusion. Not that I am shallow enough ever to do so, but that's another matter.

And (don't you hate people who start a sentence with "and"?) for that matter, if I can't ascribe science to God, starry pete can't ascribe God to science.

The only alternative to science is to watch Beckham bend the ball into the top corner of the net. Not through trajectory calculations but through instinct / magic.