Philip Hart wrote: > At least in physics it's more like - remember the stuff from last year? > That's an ok approximation, but here's a better model - or, now that > you're more mathematically sophisticated here's a subtler way to reach > the same result. How is this different, fundamentally, from the Chris Columbus stories? I don't think it's worthwhile to claim that the baby history we learned in grade school is all lies because it wasn't concerned with anything more than giving us a framework of dated events to hang later learning on any more than we should call the Algebra II teacher that showed you how to look up the sine of an angle in a table or on your calculator was lying. The key is that in _any_ discipline there is much more to learn. For everyone. The lie is telling yourself otherwise. Casey