Was Isaac Newton physics jesus?
Was Isaac Newton physics jesus?
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.... no?
if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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The dude contributed greatly to physics, optics and mathematics.
He also tried to cure the plague with magic frog vomit.
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physics jesus
Yes, he is still regarded as such. Nearly nobody is aware of how thoroughly his core statements in physics have been refuted since 1905.
His math holds water.
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Did Jesus suck a lot of dick?
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Yes. And mathematics. And a key figure in the scientific revolution. Probably also one of the most intelligent people ever.
I firmly believe Newton would have gotten to relativity before Einstien if he were born at the same time.
Possible. But then we'd need somebody else to develop calculus and write a Principia Mathematica and lay the groundworks for the age of enlightenment.
Much of the Special Relativity value was on Lorenz mechanics anyway.
And General Relativity, the Photoelectric Effect explanation, and his explanation for the Brownian movement all needed a great deal of anti-establishment thinking... honestly, I have no idea how much Newton had of that.
But it wasn't the end results and complex formulas of Einstein's theory that showed the flaws and gaps in Newton's mechanics.
It was the basic questions and thought experiments in Einstein's first script. About basic geometry, length and width. The flow of time, the speed of a signal. Concurrency.
It should have been possible to think these thoughts at Newton's time.