L'Eau Commotion Westabout

9:00am Friday 5th January 2018 ( UTC-3 ) In the first half of the last Century and with the invention of the electron microscope it was found that certain parasitic bugs have themselves tiny parasitic mites. Now this led the great American humorist Ogden Nash to pen words to the effect, ( and I am quoting from memory )

Bigger fleas have smaller fleas Upon their backs to bite 'em And smaller fleas have smaller fleas So on Ad infinitum.

Now the general public and his many admirers took this with wry amusement.

Not so the Astrophysicist. He in fact took this as a binding Principle of Physics. This principle on which the whole of his findings rely on is simple. If you make certain measurements using known real substances weighing in the range of kilograms to a few tons and distances measured in millimetres or metres you can then extend these results in any direction however large or small the distance and however large or small the mass and the results stand true. In any other field of scientific endeavour this of course is known to be ridiculous. Every equation involving measurement has stated or implied limits. You stretch a piece of wire with 1kg and it lengthens by one millimetre. You then add another 1kg and it lengthens by two millimetres. You then add another 1kg and ... the wire breaks. You do not expect, as the astrophysicist concludes, that when you apply a force of a ton the wire will stretch by a metre. Of course the Astrophysicist loves big numbers so really gets into his stride using trillions of tons stretching that piece of wire billions of kilometres ...... So on Ad infinitum The principle of reductio ad absurdium is not in his arsenal.