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To: Pontiac

When it came to physics, Newton was a genius, a revolutionary genius.
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But I’m less confident about any predictions he made outside of his area of expertise. Sort of like a master plumber telling me what the price of gold will be five years from now.


2 posted on 02/20/2026 12:07:34 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Leaning Right
But I’m less confident about any predictions he made outside of his area of expertise.

I would not go so far as to say that Newton was an expert but you could not say he was not learned on the subject of the Bible.

All colleges of his day were what we call today seminaries.

You could not go to any college and not be instructed thoroughly on the Christian religion. Harvard and Yale were both established as seminaries.

12 posted on 02/20/2026 1:52:54 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Leaning Right

Physics isn’t my bag, but from what I understand the sun will begin to expand and its luminosity increase. Then sometime in a billion years it will boil the oceans away.


13 posted on 02/20/2026 1:58:56 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Leaning Right

Those 3 Newtons laws on motion, I used them everyday in my l
Mechanical engineering work. But the most brilliant Newtons creation was invention of calculus. I used calculus so many times in my practice of mechanical engineering. Bless his brilliant soul.


16 posted on 02/20/2026 2:12:42 PM PST by Bobbyvotes (Work is worship says Bhagavad Geeta. Instead of praying do work and get richer.)
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To: Leaning Right

But many consider Physics to be the Science of God.


22 posted on 02/20/2026 4:49:09 PM PST by xkaydet65
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