The dude contributed greatly to physics, optics and mathematics.
He also tried to cure the plague with magic frog vomit.
Was Isaac Newton physics jesus?
Submitted 3 months ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 months ago
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
… no?
if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 months ago
physics jesus
Yes, he is still regarded as such. Nearly nobody is aware of how thoroughly his core statements have been refuted since 1905.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I think several other people have a better claim to that title, like Galileo Galilei and Roger Bacon. Bacon is one of the first to spell out the scientific method and Galilei… Well, you know what he did. I’d say Galileo is more Jesus-like because he was persecuted by the dominant church. And Galileo moved things a lot. Remember, Newton was born around the time Galileo died, he was born in a period of scientific upheaval. Galileo also introduced concepts that played a big role in Newtonian physics, like Galilean frames, the relativity of speeds, the idea that speed is conserved in the absence of a force…
You could argue there was also a slow acceleration of progress before Galileo 's time, and also that Copernicus is another good candidate for example, but if you really wanna emulate the Christ-like narrative, Galileo seems better. He’s even named after a region where Jesus might’ve lived.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did Jesus suck a lot of dick?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 months ago
yes. and mathematics. and a key figure in the scientific revolution. Probably also one of the most intelligent people ever.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I firmly believe Newton would have gotten to relativity before Einstien if he were born at the same time.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 months ago
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.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.