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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That guy Newton didn't even know that inertial frames of reference weren't absolute.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's cut him some slack. He was arguing against a physics system that thought heavier things sank because they have more earth element in them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

reminds me a bit of the concept that piles of filth were literal spawn points for vermin.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I mean, scientifically speaking, we haven't proven that on rare cases vermin CAN spawn, ex nihilo, from piles of filth. Maybe we've just been yet to document an example of this rare phenomena!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Do we know that?

I mean, wasn't that Einstein guy that said that if it's true, we will never truly know it?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

While it seems obvious on an intuitive level, it is actually an important observation that can't be taken for granted! :)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

It never ceases to amaze me how difficult it is to come up with something worthwhile and original (pedants, no need to point out inspiration or standing on the shoulders of giants) without years of work. Art, science, music, whatever. Yeah, there are lucky one-offs, but even something as simple sounding as “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” distills the semi-intuitive into something concrete and explainable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

or moves at constant speed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Zero is constant

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

The three laws of relativity unmodified until the twentieth century when John Rambo added the law of special relativity - “when you’re pushed, killing is as easy as breathing”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Hey, that's unfair. He also figured out that if things push at each other, they get pushed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Also, it's not just people that punch you back, things punch you back too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He also seems to have figured out modern fashion, amazing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

So, so far ahead of his time. What a genius.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Hey, he also figured out that things that are moving usually move some more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

He did not come up with the principle of inertia, it was already employed.