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A job well done (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

or moves at constant speed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Zero is constant

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 23 hours 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] 23 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours 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] 5 points 1 day 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?