Timeline for How could the current model of the Solar System have been recognized and accepted earlier?
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 18:01 | vote | accept | Hankrecords | ||
| Feb 3, 2018 at 18:51 | comment | added | AlexP | @leftaroundabout: We generally like to make the model work in a way analogous to the way the modeled system works. It's only when we have no idea how the system actually works, or when the actual physics is too complicated, that we use empirically determined models. For example, the perceived lightness of a light source is related to its physical intensity by a relationship approximating a power law; we cannot derive it from first principles, so we use one of several empirical models, such as sRGB. | |
| Feb 3, 2018 at 17:44 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | “before Newton's laws ... the only two criteria which a ... model had to satisfy were ... how simple it was ... and accuracy” these are arguably still the criteria for a modern model of anything. | |
| Feb 3, 2018 at 0:53 | history | edited | AlexP | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2018 at 18:16 | history | answered | AlexP | CC BY-SA 3.0 |