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Showing posts with label Newton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newton. Show all posts
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Saving a Newtonian intuition

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Here is a Newtonian intuition: Space and time themselves are unaffected by the activities of spatiotemporal beings. General Relativity s...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

A philosophical advantage of quantum mechanics over Newtonian mechanics

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We often talk as if quantum mechanics were philosophically much more puzzling than classical mechanics. But there is also a deep philosophic...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A reduction of spatial relations to an outdated physics

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Consider a Newtonian physics with gravity and point particles with non-zero mass. Take component forces and masses as primitive quant...
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