A job well done

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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?

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• CyberTailor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  or moves at constant speed

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  • __nobodynowhere@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Zero is constant

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨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”.

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• RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• dessalines@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Trollception@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• galanthus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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