OT: Speed of light [was Re: Why not a Python compiler?]

[Jeff Schwab]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Robert Bossy wrote:
>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> After repeated attempts at the tasks set for them in the
>>> experiments, the subjects would learn strategies that would
>>> work in a Newtonian world, but the initial intuitive reactions
>>> were very non-Newtonian (regardless of how educated they were
>>> in physics).
>>
>> I'm pretty sure we can still hear educated people say that free fall 
>> speed depends on the weight of the object without realizing it's a 
>> double mistake.
> 
> Well, you have to qualify it better than this, because what you've 
> stated in actually correct ... in a viscous fluid.

By definition, that's not free fall.