A Tribute to Isaac Newton

[Papewaio]

Oh lets face it, Newton theories have fallen from their pedestals.

Actually Moros I thought it was a rather good joke. That was why I played on with the reaction joke.

Now Gravity only seems not to exist in the Backroom because of the excess of hot air floating up from the political debates. Gravitas definitely still exists in the form of Banquo's Ghost and KukriKhan

[PBI]

Ah yes, I get it now.

Please forgive my overly literal interpretation, I wouldn't want to get in the way of a good physics joke.

[Viking]

Either way, only Einstein's equations work when physics starts to get interesting; talking with regards to black holes and the like.

[Moros]

Either way, only Einstein's equations work when physics starts to get interesting; talking with regards to black holes and the like.

If you go for great quantities yes. But if you're going subatomic scale well, then Einstein gets messy.

[Old Geezer]

Newton makes Einstein look like an idiot.

[Ibrahim]

Newton makes Einstein look like an idiot.

and your posts make me wonder about you..

Newton's laws aren't outdated for smaller problems, that is very much true. but Einstein's theory can explain the universe's quirks more accurately, especially on a larger scale.. If it weren't for his theory, our satelites wouldn't work properly, as it is proven that without the recalibration of the satelite clocks and meters* for relativity, for example, the GPS satelites would be dozens of yards off; thanks to him, most are under 20ft in error, even less. if it were false, we wouldn't see pictures of 1 star duplicated 4 times round another star**, nor would black holes exist (they do now, don't they?)

*meter=measurment tools

N.B: yes, satellites are clibrated with relativity accounted for.

**look carefully at this picture. what do you see?



or this:



note these are all the same star-literally.

[HopAlongBunny]

Let me see if I've got this right.

Gravitational lenses give us a way to detect the effects of dark matter (or was it dark energy?) Something (perhaps) also anticipated by Einstein in his cosmological constant.