Newtonian Physics

Taken as a philosophy – a scientific word which we take the liberty to use once the New Testament is “teaching” – the four Gospels of the New Testament, reflect an idea totally opposed to the usual scientific philosophy. And we daresay it is the only one challenging that of science head on. So if it is that there should be a hope that the science will come out from under the spell of technology, this cannot come but from such a philosophy. This statement has indeed deep roots in the philosophy that started the modern science. For that philosophy had as explicit criterion [more...]

Before Newton, the force was a dogma; objectively speaking it was a spirit calling forth to motion the matter of this world. Newton understood, for the first time, that the possibility of imaginatively working with force rests upon its appreciation, therefore its measurement. And further, the key of understanding of the process of force measurement is only revealed by the attitudes of our body – the only ones we can control and understand, because they affect us directly. For, what doesn’t affect us directly sinks into oblivion, due to our indifference. Consequently, if it comes to create a new dogma [more...]

The force of gravitation, as we use today in theoretical physics, was invented by Newton through the generalization of two observational facts. One of them regards the fall of bodies on Earth. It was known from Galileo that the fall is a uniformly accelerated motion down the vertical direction, i.e. toward the center of the Earth. The other is the observation that whenever we are in a vehicle moving fast and following the turn of a road, our body feels a force pulling towards the outer side of the road. If our vehicle moves in circle the pull is permanent, can be associated [more...]

Following Dr Cox’s show on the CERN Large Hadron Collider, one cannot be but amazed by the over-recurring stereotype phrase like: if the experiment will succeed then we may find that… and such. Wondering what the science became, one gets a neat definition from one of the guys interviewed by our host, sounding like (just quoting from memory): science is what we do when we don’t know what we are doing… Considering the way science is practiced today, one has to recognize that the guy was right!
On the other hand that definition might have rightfully been the motto in Newton’s times [more...]