• Outlander
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    You will not go away. You shall engage with me and Gregory until we discover a new paradigm in physics and understanding of reality.
  • T Clark
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    You will not go away. You shall engage with me and Gregory until we discover a new paradigm in physics and understanding of reality.Outlander

    Yes, master.
  • Outlander
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    Really though, I was at first expecting to leave a bit of good-natured and well-meant snark for not posting a question and whatnot but, I see that's been thoroughly taken care of.

    The man was ahead of his time, and if I'm not mistaken shared ideas that modern science has springboarded off of. Two bodies perhaps being the primal elements being earth, wind, water, and fire. Light has a uniqueness, clearly. Obviously earth being opaque is an exception but as far as the other elements this element definitely has a curious place.
  • Gregory
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    Aquinas got the four elements from the Greeks and the superiority of light over matter from Aristotle and Augustine
  • Gregory
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    My point was that Aquinas's belief in the superiority of light to matter was based on aesthetics and not science OR philosophy
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