• Smokeydope@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Gödel: “Using logic ive shown that there will always be true statements can not be proven/falsifiable within any formal system of logic”

    Mathematicians:

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    That’s not Newton’s contribution. Aristotle already said that an object only moves if a force acts upon it.

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      If anything was going to get Newton in trouble with the Church, it would have been his lifelong obsession with alchemy, not his three laws.

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    This actually wasn’t obvious at all. If I let go of an apple in midair, it falls. Why? Nothing appeared to be acting on it. The “common sense” explanation is that things naturally fall. Their “default” action is to move toward the earth. That’s why there are explanations from ancient myths about the sun and stars being “hung” in the sky. Cause otherwise, they would fall to earth too, right? Everything does.

    What Newton did was to show that there is a force acting on the apple, and without that force, it wouldn’t move. He also came up with an equation that could predict what that force would be between any two objects at any distance, and what motion or lack of motion would result from that force.

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    Yeah, it really feels like every toddler figures this out for themselves. He just said it succinctly.

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    its like how the idea of putting one number in front of another for a tens or hundreds figure seems so obvious but took forever to invent