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To: Hank Kerchief

And where is the Theory of Gravity in that page? I see the Laws of Gravity described quite well, but no explanation for the existence of gravity or mechanistically how it come into being. Newton simply derived the equations that predict the observed force, but do not explain the origin of the force. And, technically, Newton was proven wrong by Einstein.


96 posted on 01/27/2007 7:16:34 PM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30

Look, I don't care if you want to use archaic Biblical terms like "laws" for what scientists call "theories." If that's all you were cencerned about, I wasted my time. I thought you were really unfamiliar with Newton's theory, oh, ah, "laws". (Now, if you are really as obtuse as you are pretending to be, Newton's theory is that those "laws" describe how gravity behaves.)

In what way did Einstein disprove Newton's theory? As far as I know, leaving out the relativistic factor (which is nothing but a refinement of newton's "values", not the essential theory), in all practical cases, Newton's formulas work just as well as Einstein's. There is one other point--Einstein would have been hard pressed to develop his theories without Newton's work as the basis.

Hank


113 posted on 01/27/2007 7:51:48 PM PST by Hank Kerchief
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