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To: reasonisfaith

Newton didn’t know what gravity was (it appears to be action at a distance, which he had difficulty with), merely tried to model it with math.


19 posted on 09/15/2010 5:27:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not knowing what gravity was puts him in the same spot as every other human being since.

As you mention he was the guy who derived the equation, though.


20 posted on 09/15/2010 6:36:25 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Rules will never work for radicals (liberals) because they seek chaos. And don't even know it.)
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