[Right Wing Professor]

His theories work more or less on the surface of this planet, but don't work when things get bigger or smaller than that.

So you're saying that if I calculated the dynamics of the solar system using Newton's equations of motion, I'd be badly wrong?

[Doctor Stochastic]

The big Cal Tech computation did need relativistic corrections when using a 4,000,000,000 year time span.

[MineralMan]

"So you're saying that if I calculated the dynamics of the solar system using Newton's equations of motion, I'd be badly wrong?"


Not _badly_ wrong, but wrong, nevertheless. Newton's theories were based on information available to him at the time. It remained for future scientists do discover additional information.

Newton's laws _appear_ to be correct, but are flawed by his lack of knowlege of relativity.

Just as the writers of the Old Testament did not have enough information to explain cosmology accurately, Newton lacked the information to come up with valid theorems.

We continue to learn....or at least some of us do. Some of us are still stuck in 3000-year-old thinking.