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  • an apple fell on newton's head

  • heh this genius predicted doomsday lol

  • ...motherfuckers). the ones who haven't "nervous breakdowns" are only those who stole ideas from others and present them as their own (for example: Gell-Mann). he was a little bit strange? this means: he wasn't gleichgeschaltet, he wasn't a fascist but an individual. those are the problem who first begin to talk of others as if being "strange".

  • tesla - "nervous breakdown" (in fact: just exhaustion but the limited minds need to abase the ones who extend their minds), newton "nervous breakdown". and many more that really contributed (and were misused by ...

  • newton's first rule? was in fact descartes who developed it (if he didn't steal it from somebody else, for example: a woman): h t t p : / / plato.stanford.edu/entries/des­cartes-physics/#3

  • ...plato would've said this: kepler's and newton's laws are not just a mathematical model of the universe - but the other way around. in the end: both ways are possible and necessary to find new facts: in- and deduction. no wonder it's being called ex-per-in-ment(al).

  • newton came to his conclusions (just like kepler did) because he assumed to be the physical world being a copy of the exact and eternal truths of mathematical reality which holds no margins of errors, no probabilities, no uncertainties. ...

  • imagine Isaac Newton in 2011 Priseon with black dudes... !

  • @afghangorilla What's a "Priseon"?

  • @guyNbluejeans

    prison :p

  • @afghangorilla I take it that your own personal great fear is to be in a prison cell with black dudes giving you a good humping whenever they like, is that about right?

    Be careful, sometimes what we worry the most about ends up happening!

  • @guyNbluejeans

    hahaha very funny....

    my greatest fear and my great love is only one god nothing more .!!

    u think ur smart...hehe but gues what ...ur soooo stupid ;)

  • @afghangorilla Go eat a carrot.

  • @guyNbluejeans

    heh i was just kidding man.... i have a huge respect for isaac Newton, he was a BIg man. :D

    and u said eat Carrot ???

    thats Rasist..hehe lol

  • For someone so secretive hoarding his work, it must be noted that it was very generous of him to give his masterpiece, Principia, to the world.

    Also, I rather like it that he was a serious loner and kept to himself, as I find that the more "friends" one has the more watered-down and compromised one becomes in their views until they're just pathetic homogenized gomers that follow the (PC) whims of the masses.

    Newton was smart to keep some distance, as too many people are two-faced liars......

  • @guyNbluejeans I see where you're coming from and I enjoyed your response. However, isolation was not a choice for Newton, I don't think. I'm not sure the reason for his isolation, but I guarantee you that nobody likes being lonely... as said in the video, he had a couple of nervous breakdowns in his life and probably dealt with many personal demons. He may have suffered social anxiety, depression, who knows. But it might not be wise to lift him up to a pedestal and say he chose to be lonely...

  • @tpstrat14 I take it you're of the opinion that a person can't be lonely as long as others are around? So Newton with his towering intellect would have not felt lonely with imbeciles around him?

    Btw, Newton had a roommate for his many years at Cambridge. From what I read, his roommate, though older, understood Newton to be a genius and took care of his meals and laundry and such (something my cat won't do for me).

  • @guyNbluejeans I take it that you're not too perceptive a person if you take it that I think you can't be lonely with people around. I don't know where you got that idea....Of course you CAN be lonely with people around you. But you CAN'T have friends, support and happiness without people around.

  • @tpstrat14

    "But you CAN'T have ... happiness without people around." Strange.

  • @guyNbluejeans (i.e. no man is an island)

  • @tpstrat14 Your youthful naivety is showing, but it's no biggie.

  • @guyNbluejeans Thank you. I hope I keep what you call "naivety". Apparently it is a great thing...

  • @tpstrat14 Do this: Download our comments and put them in an envelope and allow 30-years of life to go by and then open it and have a good laugh at yourself, you mindless fool!

  • @guyNbluejeans I'll surely have killed myself by then if I was to live in such a way that I think it's OK to be a hermit.

  • @tpst Hmm my apologies for calling you a mindless fool. I nearly always reserve that type of language for those that want to sling it at me, but I can't see where you went to that level. Again, sorry about that.

    Btw, us hermits (yeah, to a serious degree I am one) have learned that there are a great percentage of people that are scum and phony as can be. Hopefully your fate in life won't be what mine has been in that regard. But if you run into 'em too, know that the computer is a great Friend!

  • @guyNbluejeans No offense taken. I would like to continue this debate if you would! I don't see how you can affect the world with the love that is inside you if you're not in physical, active contact with others while you're living. I mean, yes, it is nice to have calculus and such, but Newton being a hermit during his life largely (if not completely) took away from the actual effect he had on the world. Listen to The Beatles' song All You Need Is Love. That will explain my position better...

  • @tpstrat14 Huh? Do you really think this makes sense:"...Newton being a hermit during his life largely (if not completely) took away from the actual effect he had on the world."

  • @guyNbluejeans I said it solely because I thought it made sense. lol...What are you confused about exactly?

  • @tpstrat14 It makes zero sense. I don't really want to bother with deconstructing it as that wouldn't be worth my time and likely wouldn't matter anyway on account of it being such an open and shut thing as it is already.

  • @guyNbluejeans Sure, we have airplanes and all sorts of neat technology because of Newton laying the foundation for thinking mathematically. But is this search for so-called "knowledge" even relevant? How often did Newton go out of his way to help someone else while he was alive? That's what matters. Do you understand now? lol... I'm done with this. You're refusing to think...

  • @tpstrat14 He once helped an old lady cross a street.

    Now go in peace.

  • @guyNbluejeans If he did that, then that act surpassed all of his work on physics and mathematics.

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  • For more on science & nature try books by top scientists; astronomer Victor J. Stenger, ' Fallacy of fine tuning ', Richard Dawkins, ' Unweaving the rainbow ' & ' The greatest show on earth ' & PZ Meyers & the website Talkorigins

  • Sounds like a dick.

  • @jamma246 If it wasn't for the "dick," you'd be living in a sewer.

  • Haha 3:30 HUR DURRR

  • @kristijan0kroflin u r probably an einsteinian physicsist!

  • SandustanBrasov

    The UNIFIED LAW is the LAW of the UNIVERSAL ATTRACTION FORCES= of the GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTION FORCES = of the ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD FORCES produced by the inner movement of the inertial rotation of the ethereal matter from bodies and substances. This, because, the ethereal particles are in continuous movement through the them nature, being electrical – produce electrical energy, being named and electrogenic particles.

  • @sandustanBrasov Cool story bro

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Thus, all the physics's laws, chemistry's laws and biology's laws it can include and explain through this unified law of the electromagnetic field produced of inner movement of inertial rotation of the matter from bodies and substances. The spacial brethren say us about Newton that: "Newton is great saint with us in Sky!"

  • SandustanBrasov

    The unified law of Newton will throw at rubbish Einstein’s relativity, with Big bang, black holes, singularity and holes of worm. With these methaphysical theories and animation about absorption the Eartn or Sun it destroy logical thinking and reason at man. With this dissiness enter man in terrestrial life, and no more believe that he has a future. Result thus blocking of the society, which lead at general corruption of society and at her sodominess and dissoluteness.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The UNIVERSAL ATTRACTION LAW it apply identically to the movement the atoms of the ethereal matters, identically to the movement the atoms of the chemical elements, identically to the movement the planets and stars of the one galaxy, because any body of any dimension possess a mass and thus is subdued the newtonian forces of interaction.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The universal attraction law of the Newton is the UNIFIED LAW because all those three fundamental interactions: the nuclear interaction, the electromagnetic(electron-proto­¬n) interaction and the gravitational interaction are interactions produced through the ethereal matter, what bind the classical physics of the good part of the modern physics, but it bind and the ETHEREAL PHYSICS.

  • SandustanBrasov

    Any will be the couple of material bodies, the newtonian system contain the idea that a force of attraction unite them, that they are attracts one towards the other of this proportional force with the multiplied the masses, and reverse proportional with the square of the distance which separate them.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    All those three principles of the dynamics: the inertia's principle, the principle the proportionality of the acceleration with the force and the principle of the action and reaction - are essential elements of the universal attraction law; which in essence is a law of the inertial mass in motion.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The “GRAVITY” is a radiation and an electromagnetic quadripolar field between two bodies. The gravity is not a chemical fixed bound, but is an elastic bound, which accompanys all those four states of aggregation of the matter: solid, liquid, gaseous and ethereal.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The INERTIAL MOVE from matter produce the gravitational field, and the gravity with her particles ties the macrocosmos with microcosmos and influenced all what exists sitting thus at the general existence basis. The UNIFIED LAW of matter's forces I can say with cetainly that it exists from some hundred years and is Newton's universal attraction law.

  • SandustanBrasov

    Isaac Newton establishes the basic notion of classical mechanics, proved the universal attraction law and put base of the celestial mechanics. Newton had affirmed THAT IT HASN’T EXIST NATURAL PROCESS WHO HASN’T PRODUCED BY ATTRACTION AND REPULSION ACTIVE FORCES WHICH REGULATES THE CELESTIAL BODIES MOVEMENT AND THE BODIES FALING DOWN,THAT LEEDS THE CHEMICAL AND MECHANICAL PROCESSES,fact which makes that the universal attraction law acts as in macrocosmos and as in microcosmos.

  • SandustanBrasov

    In the zone collisions and explosion starry, from the primary matter - matter under electrical field, magnetic field and radiations form, it begins to form the underatomic particles; first the electron which remain as crystallisation nucleus definitized on him the neutron, which at that time when becomes free oneself is transformed in proton and electron, respective in atoms of hydrogen, giving immenses hydrogen clouds what finds on the starry cataclysms place.

  • SandustanBrasov

    In an atom, the peripherical big speed at so little radius are proof that every particle or group of particles can create continuously a personal magnetic field in which floats and which permit them an inertial rotation movement without rapid lesses, as a celestial body in cosmical space.For example, the medium's density at 200 miles above Earth is so small, that if Jupiter it will turn in this medium 1000000 years, then Jupiter will lose not to millionth part from his motion!

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Thus TWO BODIES IN INTERACTION CREATES BETWEEN THEM A MAGNETIC DEPRESION WHAT CONSTITUTE THE ATTRACTION FORCE BETWEEN BODIES. In a similar mode it can construct the magnetic fields schedule for a helium atom in which we have: 1).-the magnetic field created by the nucleus; 2).-the electromagnetic field created between an electron and a proton; 3).-the gravitational electromagnetic field of the atom, field what is absorbed of atom and is accelerated by the electromagnetic field.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Thus the viscous material from the central zone can get only through a certain extremity, evolving around the particle or further away in space from where it turns by the other extremity of the particle. The inertial movement working of the underatomic particles and the atoms as whole permits them to compare with the powerful ASPIRATORS which absorbs, but its emits too matter under the form of magnetic field's particles.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Loops which at the substraction of rotation speed are retiring, and at growth rotation speed, evolves around the particle and enter through the other end forming a continuously mass circulation of primary matter from the central zone. The external's part of the particle by friction with the medium become a spherical surface, and in the inner share where continuous the crystallisation it will obtain an uniformly waved surface, with helicoidal channels disposed around his axis.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The general schedule of existence of any underatomic particle is a schedule to one sphere with central section on the rotation vertical axis of the particle in which we have: 1).-the carcass resulting by the radially crystallisation, from external to internal; 2).-the viscous inner mass; 3).-inner helicoid channel disposed around the axis, resulted in the last carcass crystallisation; 4).-magnetic field loops or primary viscous mass loops from the central zone.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    How the solidification begins from external it would resultated that in the central zone at any underatomic particles would remained continuously a primary matter mass, more viscous, so that to the shown rotations the free underatomic particles, or in the atom's frame, to take out in space matter from the central zone, but on which to it recover continuously for maintaining the them integrity.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The atoms, the underatomic particles, the radiations - all to be possible to crystallize at highter temperature. Continuing so we arrive to the gravitational field particles whose characteristics: rapid movement, great power of penetration and reciprocal attraction proves that they also can be composed.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The existence of the rotation motion in macrocosmos and in microcosmos, and the great temperature interval from zero Kelvin degrees at millions of degrees in stars, guide us attention towards the inertial masses in motion and towards the matter's crystallisation phenomenons. Naturally, the crystallisation bigins from external(from periphery) and advances towards the central zone. The bodies and substances known by man, are crystallizing between 0...4000 Kelvin degrees.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Mendeleev had shown that we can not conceive without motion even the smallest matter particle. It says about radiations but about atoms and molecules that they have a vibration frequency of approximate 10 at 13 …10 at 15 what means that these are turning arround theirs self axes with 10 at 13 …10 at 15 rotations on second proofing the existence of a continuous inertial motion .

  • SandustanBrasov

    The PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL MATTER is the visible matter with free eye and is constituted from atoms of the chemical elements. The PHYSICAL-ETHEREAL MATTER is a matter with atoms more small with 7..8 order of dimension than the atoms of chemical elements, and the bodies formed from this matter are invisible for the human eye. The ETHEREAL PHYSICS it occupy with the study of the ethereal matters, but which was abandoned in the XX century, because in 1905 A.Einstein excludes the ether

  • SandustanBrasov

    In 1930..1935 apple of discord was the photon of light. General opinion of the physicists had adopted the viewpoint which upholded not the existence's idea in flight to photon. Thus they had allowed the photon without mass.If the photon has not mass, he can't interact with nothing on trajectory and the light speed remain constant.In place let to consider that the photons lose the speed on way following them interaction with the meeted matter, they had set the Universe let dilate

  • SandustanBrasov

    Today, on measure that the theory advances from classic mechanics to the quantum mechanics the particle and wave are gradual dematerialize.The modern physics is blocked by enounciation of some laws and mistaken principles as: relativity theory;Hubble's low, poastulation that the atom can't emit and absorb radiations continuously, admitting the postulate what claims the photons without mass a.s.o.These guide us at supernatural, and at the technical and technological blockage.

  • SandustanBrasov

    • In 1905, A.Einstein conclude that the ether hasn't a correspondent in reality and constitute not a medium which let can serve as reference system. Thus Einstein renounced to the ether notion and absolute space and emits the two restricted relativity principles. By it content the second principle excludes the ether, impose as limit of bodies' movement - the light speed - and denatured completely the classic dynamics reality.

  • From what I've read about him, he was one step short of being mad as a hatter, and I mean that in the literal sense. In the 1970's, an analysis of a strand of his hair was shown to contain mercury levels around 40 times the natural level. It is presumed that this is due to his experiments in alchemy.

    By the way, I heard that it was a bodkin that he inserted into his eye socket, not an ice pick (not that it makes the story any weirder).

  • @Uminchuu

    With that said, he was still quite an amazing man who helped to advance our understanding in several 'Laws' of the physical world. I am currently studying Feynman't Lost Lecture: The Motion of the Planets around the Sun, which is based off of Newton's work in using simple plane geometry to accurately work out just that! Simply amazing!

  • If only he knew that he is this famous and important...

  • iehouas sanctus unus XD

  • yes that is correct he rejected the trinity now fast forward to the book 137 about the relationship between Pauli and Jung Pauli gave us the 4th quantum number formerly 3 now let us discuss 3 dimensions vs. 4 the cube vs. the tesseract and higher dimensions Kepler supported the trinity and Fludd the quaternity Are you seeing a Pattern geesh its etched into the geometry of the universe scientists are lame and religion is blind or is it the other way around? does it matter both sides are wrong
  • there is a book out about Newton called 'The Last Sorcerer' and the info is a bit more accurate than these folks are gossiping about.

    get the book and you learn Newton used alchemy/math/physics ALL as tools to PROVE the truth found in the bible.

    science hates the fact he was foremost a devout Arian, and Alchemist, who invented the math and physics he did to be used as TOOLS to prove the bible true.

    and Newton thought Catholics and Anglicans were the devils' handmaidens essentially.

  • "The velocity of a body remains constant unless the body is acted upon by an external force." On which scales is it assumed that this force "exists"? Does the force exist by itself or is it generated? Or is it the other way around and the other things are generated by force? What's the difference between force and an object? Wouldn' t an object expand to all sides if there'd be no force (even on the lower scales - not just vacuum)?

  • @ispravljat First of all, you've misunderstood the allegory of the cave. Second of all, like the chap in the video, you need to learn some humility. I remind you of a caveman, while you are the great, enlightened philosopher-poet bearing the light of reason and truth? Get over yourself, man.

  • @ispravljat Liking or disliking has nothing to do with it, bud. Fact is, Isaac Newton is possibly the smartest man who ever lived. The guy in the video who isn't sure if Newton is worthy of his mediocre faculty or not is utterly delusional.

  • newton is a bad ass

  • Ha! That guy who isn't sure if Newton would deserve to be hired by him is flipping delusional. It's SIR ISAAC NEWTON we're talking about, mate. In the grand scheme of "academia" he's the battleship Bismarck and you're a small, leaking dinghy.

  • The Freemasons stll attaach the one true church.IT IS a HIGHLY OFFENSIVE site and has a hidden adenda Whe pray for your doomed souls`

  • ありがとう

  • Is it normal to get goosebumps when seeing a picture of Sir Isaac Newton?

    Knowing how he changed the World, and how influential he was... It is just amazing. Genius of a man.

  • Does anyone know what Isaac Newton's voice sounded like? I would like to hear it if anyone can get it...

  • @anticorncob6 Newton lived in 1643-1727 and the first audio recording didn't happen until the 1860s.

  • @YourBrainOnReligion I think he was referring to "Wayne" Newton! LOL

    Peace,

    -Grizz

  • @YourBrainOnReligion Well we might figure it out because we know what he LOOKED like from paintings, and you can sometimes tell someone's voice frorm what they look like.

  • That girl at 3:08 is a domina in her free time, i believe.

  • The real question is, what have these nerds accomplished compared to Isaac Newton? Lol...

  • I like pie

  • @321beth321 so do I

  • he discovered the subject not invented it:)

  • Absolutely love the ending 

  • @VideoJargon what is he saying? "Quiet?"

  • @Moratorium Haha yeah!

  • Newton developed calculus and Leibniz developed it on his own, independant of Newton 10 years or so later.

  • you boobs aren't fit to comment on the man.

  • .... Newton stole his ideas from Robert Hooke.

  • Integrals on the side of Newtons house? 

  • Fascinating Video...well done.

    One question, who's the cute girl on the video?

  • didn't he derive it from Leibniz.

  • @VolkColopatrion I really hope that was a calculus joke... because I laughed.

  • Aren't most real geniuses extreme introverts?

  • @BrootalMetalBanjo yea,,,we are.

  • Funnily enough, Newton and Hooke had very similar personalities.

  • R u doing vids on scientist from now on? I'd like to see Einstein or Bohr, or someone eccentric like newton

  • "if i could make a video with him then i wouldnt be itting here with you." oohh burnnnn

  • i know , if he has seen further it is by standing on shoulders of giants, the meaning. But like Newton i will never share my work.

  • imagine if you went to cambridge universty for some reason and you found a secret underground path and there were other things of newtons like his therious and other secrets all these things that we dont know about but only you have it

  • Isaac Newton vs Einstein...

  • 300 years ago and newton is still smarter than 75% of Americans. 

  • Newton would have been useful to bankers and scientists in today's world.

  • @Dabayare

    but the only ason why he was secretive was because of the way his generation acted back then.

    if he would see our generation today, he would suceed. In my opinion

  • @entoris476 "but the only ason why he was secretive was because of the way his generation acted back then.

    if he would see our generation today, he would suceed. In my opinion"

    I agree. He was a product of his times as much as he was a product of his genius.

    It would be very unlikely that he would waste so much effort on theology today.

  • @entoris476 Exactly, many scientists kept secret because of plagiarism, and the Church's resistance to new ideas. He was secretive because his fore fathers in the field were basically killed and imprisoned for sharing their ideas. He wrote his great book in Latin for that very reason. So it is incredibly naive and shortsighted to view Newton's secrecy as a bad quality.

  • lol newton would fail today, as a scientist and person. His neighbors would have probably called the cops on him so much for being such a fucking weirdo.

  • @putango123 calm down ass

  • Don't know a great deal about his theories, but as an art historian, I LOVE his Kneller portraits. Kneller knocked out a lot of crap in his time, but he really took care with his portraits of Newton!

  • If you don't like peoples comments just don't read them, there is always a choice.

  • Make a video on Einstein

  • He is my inspiration for mathematics........ Sadly, I never studied physics..........

  • just drink your tea realy fast, i did.

  • By now I've watched a few vids about the prophesies Newton postulated. There's a lot of talk about what newton was like,but very little in the way of actual statements he made about prophesy. These vids,so far are nothing but a rambling discourse, of the various charicter traits of Newton. I'm starting to wonder if he acually made any statements about prophesy.

  • Isaac Newton had a moment of brilliant, council, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, insight, and published enough completed works; and he became a famous name for truth and correctness in science.

  • @WOWJBEOWULF He is much more popular than Einstein when it came to collaborations with science and mathematics. Also, he was a living legend and an instant celebrity in his time.

  • was it true that newton was gay ...just curious ?

  • @AIMANALI i heard newton loved the PlayStation 3 and hated the xbox 360, and said that halo sucks. But does that means his discoveries are less important? no

  • @tsuikjoshiomatsu yeah i know - i guess that was a silly question .

  • Be still my bearing heart! That woman is beautiful! I must enroll at your university this instant!

  • The problem with most scientists is that they easily believe theories as facts.

    My own theory is that all mass shows some form of altruism atoms and cells Because it is in eveyones interest to be altruistic. I have to accept that as just my theory and not treat it has a fact until someone else proves it is a fact. Pity everyone cannot treat their theories the same way.

  • @TheSuzanSuzan I think you mis-judge scientists. My impression is that they treat their theories as models only. In discussions they may talk as if they are real things because otherwise discussion would become stilted but I'm not sure if many of them think the models always have exact physical counterparts.

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    Try asking a QM scientist what they think the wave-function physically represents. You might be right but I think you will be pleasently surprised.

  • @TheSuzanSuzan: I think you are wrong. Scientists, especial.ly physicists, have a very finely trained sense of what id fact / observation and what is inferred from those facts, their theories. It is trained into them from their earliest school; if you were to look back to whatever science you were taught, I think you would find that distinction buried in there as well.

  • Late in life Newton was named the Master of the Mint.  Normally a sinecure, he took it seriously. Among his duties was conviction of counterfeiters, which crime was considered high treason punishable by hanging, draw and quartering. He did his own undercover investigations in pubs and public houses, and his own prosecutions. He had 28 coin counterfeiters convicted under his mastery; see William Chaloner, who almost got away.

    He died with mercury in his body, probably due to his alchemy

  • hey they didn't mention about Newton's exagerated modesty.....

  • Nothing is new to God and that is a great fact. If God did not give us the idea then it was not meant to be. Simple fact. Like the removal of all light is darkness which is a truth which even Einstein recognised or the removal of all warmth makes us cold. Therefore there is only substance in warmth and light and it is not too far removed to assume that evil is the removal of all Good which is God.

  • @robemacp PS God is Good and not evil. Evil belongs to the dominion of the defeated one whom I will not name to give it any credence.

  • I always though the C in Principia was pronounced S and not K. D=

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  • If you want to see Isaac Newton's seething passion, watch "The Invention of Calculus"

  • i know what infinity is. " a car"

    bhaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaa

    ha hah ha ;>)

  • The largest or smallest number to exist is said to be infinite but this is a stupid answer,

    because if something is truly infinite then no such number exists. Because they are infinite and the human brain cannot grasp infinity. The only person who can grasp what infinity is someone who is infinite.

    All the world thinks they understand infinity

    because everyones stupid, That is Gods joke and he is laughing at everyone.

    Ha ha ha ha ha

  • Despite the genius of certain people, often, they also just happened to be around at a particular point in the development of science and their discoveries would have happened anyway at about that time. Calculus seemed to be ripe in Newtons era and much of the optics too. But I've never heard that anyone else was onto Force and the laws of motion like Newton. This seems to be a conceptual breakthrough of a different nature to maths or optics. Q: Without Newton, when would this have happened?

  • @chrisofnottingham: Kepler already had shown orbits were in ellipses. What was needful was a reason that that should be so, and Newton's law combined with his calculus showed why the ellipse (or, more exactly, any of the conic sections) were the only possibilities for free orbits. So, orbital mechanics was ready as soon as calculus became available.

  • @puncheex Kepler had the data already and Leibniz had invented his calculus too but who else had a grasp on the 'intuitive' nature of the laws apart from Newton? Was anyone else in the same ball park?

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    It seems to me that without the understanding of the laws there is nothing to translate into differential equations. We kind of take his laws for granted but when you first meet them they strike most people as plainly wrong. My Dad still won't believe that the floor is pushing him up.

  • @chrisofnottinghamI have no argument with Newton and his genius. All I was demonstrating is that Newton and his physics problems and his math all came together at the same time.. I would guess there have been several in the same ballpark - Einstein, Feynman, Darwin, Gauss, Mozart, Galileo, da Vinci, Archimedes; but that is just me looking up.

  • @puncheex Well this was my honest question. I can see it was true about optics and maths but I was not sure about his intuition into Forces.

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    Side note: I heard a major scientist remark that Einstein's SR was ripe for the taking and would have gone to someone else if not him fairly soon. But that his GR was so unlikely, he estimated it might have been 80 years before anyone else cracked it.

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    True or not, I wondered if Newton's insight into Forces was like this.

  • @chrisofnottingham: It could well have been, but the derivation is not possible without the notions built into calculus, so three things had to come together, and Newton was the right person to handle all three: the math, the insights drawing together the natural world with the astronomical, and Kepler's laws.

  • @chrisofnottingham one does get trapped into such counteractuals (they're fun to play around with no doubt) but how does one effectively answer them (obviously not to everybody's satisfaction, but still...)? Why didn't all these chaps in Greece 2000 years ago come up with anything like, say, experimental physics ? It's clear enough they weren't exactly dumb! So? Not enough of them perhaps? How many people around Socrates's time? How many in England when Newton was around? ... So many variables.

  • @nealezumm re counterfactuals: True. Its must be beyond doubt that the DNA based intelligence of the brain hasn't changed much in the last few thousand years. But any genius still has to start from his culture and is thus limited -Newton could never have fathered QM. Similarly, most things eventually crack to the creeping progress of mere morals. The laws of motion would have been deduced by others, as was calculus. Newtons greatness was that he did all that and more alone.

  • @chrisofnottingham Yep, the quality/amount of information available at one point determines what can be found from there (Tycho's precise measurements made it possible for Kepler (got a soft spot for K!) to break the "circular orbits" spell) - but how many people are toying with the data must be a factor too? (The Wallace-Darwin case is even more puzzling. No math needed. Sends me wondering what "obvious" solutions to deep problems escape us (because of some invisible conceptual blindspot!))

  • @chrisofnottingham: Indeed. Neil deGrasse Tyson (almost!) worships Newton, but he pointed out in one of his talks how even after deriving gravity and the calculus needed to prove it was what forced Kepler's elliptical orbits, he balked when it came to explaining 3 body gravitational interactions, and left it to others, saying that only the intellect of god could handle the problem.

  • @puncheex Laplace eventually did it.

  • Newton was a very great mathematician, and a fine observational physicist.

    But to suggest that he 'founded' physics ignores the contributions of Hooke and Cavendish. Neither had as brillian a mind as Newton, but both would contribute more to science in the long run

    Science really isn't about personalities: it is a team effort.

    Newton was brilliant, but never a team player.

  • @thallassocracy: Definitely true, but science definitely has room as well for the solitary genius. Newton, Einstein, Kepler, Gauss, Helmholtz, Leibnitz, there are hundreds who have brilliant, intuitive ideas and therefore individual, rather then deductive and possible for group work. Read about the physics of radioactive substances to see how the individuals and the group interacted. Science very definitely grows on both.

  • sitting under a tree watching apples fall. This is the kind of thing you get up to when you havn't got a proper job.

  • Newton could also hover and one time he shat a gold nugget.

  • lol,

  • Galileo was the first to use the telescope for astronomy, before then it had been not been used for the benefit of science or knowledge about the universe, but like other new inventions, it was first used for porn.

    ;)

  • Isaac Newton...only really effective when playing in the diamond formation..

  • But what about William Blake? Why do the greats have to be men of science?

    William Blake's achievements have been much overlooked by modern scholars, for instance ;

    The first man to notice That different colour paints produced different colours.

    That moss tended to be green and not very tasty.

    That hitting ones thumb with a hammer was fairly painful.

    That mobile 'phones didn't work very well without satellites,ditto GPS.

    That years of self abuse was no excuse for running out of words on You Tu

  • where did he learn? who r these plp?

  • haha geek wars...

  • Newton is a genius beyond measure, I wont take that away from him but he is NOT the father of physics.Exaggeration is repugnant.

  • Newton was a genius but he couldn't explain

    what infinity was. Neither could Jesus, or Mohammed or any other person alive or dead. Can God explain what infinity is?

  • Nope - I can explain infinity - infinity is a number with no limit.

    I'm better than god.

  • Your smarter than a man in a book.. Amazing skills.