<font color='#0000FF'>Jay - yep planning ot be at anglesey - barring any unforeseen occurences
Matt- an excellent point, but in order for the light speed limit to be wrong physicists would need a very weird explanation to show how all the things that are currently believed to be true, could possibly and logically be wrong, yet still function as we see them (which is the essence of scientific advancement).
Einsteins relativity theories (1920) corrected some minor errors on the previous landmark physics text ie Newtons
Principia from 1687, so chances are that the next big advancement in this field isn't going to happen anytime soon (mind you, Murphy's law now predicts that something big
will be announced just to make me wrong
).
Someone (might have been Richard Feynman, can't remember) went to extraordinary lengths to design and test an experiment to show that Relativity was infact true, they wrote to Einstein with the news and he replied "It is too elegant a theory to be false". Having said that, it's well documented that an elderly Einstein couldn't hack the ideas of unpredicatability inherent in quantum mechanics, famously quoted as saying "God does not play dice with the universe,"
something contradicted my Stephen Hawking these days.
All this flat earth nonsense, which BTW some people, mostly Americans, STILL believe in
(Earth is flat rubbish) predates the beginning of modern science, but ironically it was well known to the ancient Greeks, originally credited to Pythagorus but more so to Ptolomy (mind, he thought the Earth was spherical but stationary) . Also Democritus in ancient Greek times proposed a basic atomic theory which remained lost knowledge for almost 2000 years
Cor blimey Guv, fink thats enuff science for today
Chee-az
Steve