Einstein Vs. Newton on Space and Time
Albert Einstein's theories shook the very foundation of reality, challenging the Newtonian view that space and time are absolute. Science historian David Kaiser and physicist Fay Dowker set...
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Shakespeare had written of course very famously that all the world's a stage right? And that's really the kind of picture of metaphor that Newton has in mind throughout his greatest work "The Principia" The planets will move around, the comets will orbit the sun, the apples will fall, and all that happens, all that action Takes place on a kind of perfectly rigid, unchanging stage. That stage is then space and time for Newton So Newton says very famously space and time are each absolute. They flow without Compromise, there's nothing that happens on that stage is going to affect the stage itself They're not actors in the drama Newton's view of time is the what I would call the everyday notion of time that we That we grow up with, ...
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Shakespeare had written of course very famously that all the world's a stage right? And that's really the kind of picture of metaphor that Newton has in mind throughout his greatest work "The Principia" The planets will move around, the comets will orbit the sun, the apples will fall, and all that happens, all that action Takes place on a kind of perfectly rigid, unchanging stage. That stage is then space and time for Newton So Newton says very famously space and time are each absolute. They flow without Compromise, there's nothing that happens on that stage is going to affect the stage itself They're not actors in the drama Newton's view of time is the what I would call the everyday notion of time that we That we grow up with, ...
