On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 10:43:57 AM UTC, Martin Brown wrote:

You can try but the second law of thermodynamics will be working against
you.

Regards,
Martin Brown

Empiricism sucks astronomy into 'laws' with all the legalistic jargon of evidence, proof etc common to the judicial profession as though fair minded men are considering an issue

The is no 'law of gravity', there was the meek ideology of a rule bumped up to the jargon of a law by Newton and his followers using the notion that the distinction between experimental analogies and large scale astronomical structure and planetary motions can be obliterated.

"Rule III. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither [intensification] nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever." Newton

Ask the cult followers of this ideology how the fall of a simple apple equates to the motion of the Earth around the Sun and with the solar system through space in its galactic orbital motion and they are lost apart from spewing worthless jargon.

It is well that you all found the most mediocre participant to set yourselves apart even when the narrative of the parasitic relationship of empiricism to astronomy and terrestrial sciences is there for reasonable people to discuss. Far from the dullards and gloom of things wearing out and breaking down are the great cycles of the planets and the ever present renewal of life during a daily and annual cycle and it is this that astronomers need to refocus their attention and away from worthless nonsense that has long since passed it novelistic stage.