Re: recent NOVA show on Newton; in defense of Newton


a_plutonium@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> A good program overall. And I want to add something about the year
> 2060. It is probably the advent or arrival of the Atom Totality theory
> over the entire planet, and not some silly Armageddon of bibles. For
> God is Science and science is god.
>
> They mentioned Hooke often and taught me something new. How a scientist
> can be a scientist and yet have a despicable personality. Some internet
> posters have despicable personalities and should never have entered
> science as a profession. The habit of Hooke to rag on Newton and to
> claim that every idea of Newton was original to Hooke. It goes to show
> that people who make science their career and profession does not halt
> or forbid them from illogic and subjective and antiscientific
> behaviour.
>
> I believe in the segment where Halley is talking to Newton about what
> geometrical figure a inverse square law would produce, that the
> nonmention of Kepler is out of place. Kepler worked all of that out. So
> this segment is vastly wrong and makes the viewer think that Halley or
> Newton never knew of Kepler. They mentioned Galileo, but they should
> have mentioned Kepler and also Leibniz fight over calculus.
>
> I believe that Newton fell sick with mercury poisoning. Although he did
> reach a very old age, was it 84??
>
> I believe this program is too slanted in their low opinion of alchemy.
> One must remember that chemistry was alchemy until recent time. And
> Newton's science was mostly what? Was it not the inner tickings of
> matter and light? Did not Newton spend more time on optics and light
> then on gravity or calculus. So if you want to dig deeper into light
> and optics, Newton had to go to matter and matter in his day was
> alchemy. I believe what Newton was looking for was the forces in matter
> itself. Force at a distance is gravity and Newton was trying to make
> progress in what is inside matter. So I think this Nova show on TV
> paints a low opinion of Newton, when it should be the opposite in that
> Newton was attempting to create a chemistry out of alchemy and was
> attempting to create a Faraday Maxwell theory of lines of force some
> 200 years earlier than when they were discovered.
>
> So I think future editions or revisions of this TV program on Newton
> should change the low opinion to that of a higher-opinion of Newton
> dabbling in alchemy.
>
> And I think Newton's bones should be inspected to see if he suffered
> from mercury poisoning.

Well modern physics rags on anything about Newton,
since the only thing modern science does is modern
non-existent Quantum Computers and morden Darwin crap like PBS.

Hooke was like physicists, tte only idea
he ever had in his entire life was to steal a spring from Zeno
and
call it a linear spring.







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> Archimedes Plutonium
> www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
> whole entire Universe is just one big atom
> where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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