Glad to see you back, Mr. Kendall. Hope all is well.
@Flash-sr8hm5 ай бұрын
Theres a book called "murdered by isaac newton" which is an eye-opening look at how newton treated his fellow scientists. Newtons ego was larger than his sizable intellect.
@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi5 ай бұрын
No need to coddle lessers
@viole6494 ай бұрын
As a guy who struggles to understand the concepts Newton discovered centuries ago, I feel calling his intellect ‘sizable’ is very offensive lol.
@rchas10235 ай бұрын
How long would it take Newton to comprehend the mathematics underlying relativity? First Special, and then General?
@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi5 ай бұрын
@@rchas1023 not too long ago- the physics are deeper than the math . Would be amazing to introduce them!!
@JesseWRIGHT-th8mw5 ай бұрын
He was Isaac Newton. He'd probably only need to know that the speed on light is a finite universal constant and learn how fields resolve the problem of action at a distance.
@JerehmiaBoaz5 ай бұрын
@@JesseWRIGHT-th8mw Fields don't resolve the problem of action at a distance at all, fields are just a convenient way to model action at a distance. In fact Newtonian gravity is usually taught as a field model (instead of the point attraction that Newton used).
@Truth_Teller_1014 ай бұрын
Probably a few minutes, and then he'd spend the weekend developing a "grand unified theory". Remember that this is the guy who, when encountering a problem he couldn't solve, would just invent a new type of mathematics to solve it. He makes Einstein look like Bill Nye the Science Guy.
@mikev46214 ай бұрын
@@JesseWRIGHT-th8mw The speed of light was known quite accurately while he was alive
@tonibat594 ай бұрын
Very nice lecture Dr Kendall. I enjoyed every bit of it, took notes like at the classroom. I find however that your last statement about Einstein providing an 'explanation' of gravity, unlike Newtonian gravity (NG), looks a little optimistic. GR is a necessary improvement and correction to NG, and a big step forward toward an eventual complete explanation. But does not yet provide the full picture. When Nobel laureate David Gross was asked by Richard Panek 'What is gravity?', his answer was blunt and clear: 'I wish we knew' (See 2017 YT vid "Coming to grips with gravity" (2:40) ). The rationale for the connection of mass to SPCT curvature is not provided by GR. Why does SPCT curve by the exact amount at every point, depending on the amount of mass, we still ignore. The point is subtle, but significant.
@JasonKendallAstronomer4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the note. It’s an excellent comment.
@desdenova15 ай бұрын
He would probably think that he was a blasphemous heathen who was shockingly lax in his alchemy and bible studies.
@JerehmiaBoaz5 ай бұрын
Newton's discovery that gravity was universal and it was the same gravity that causes the planets to move in ellipses in the sky, causes things to fall down on earth, and that it was a kind of mysterious action at a distance, had its parallel in hermeticism which was directly linked to alchemy and astrology. The Emerald tablet states"That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracle of one only thing." (translation by Isaac Newton.) My personal opinion is that Newton believed he had disproved astrology by identifying its astral influence on earth as the rather mundane gravity. I think it's hard to explain why a hermeticist would almost completely ignore astrology while spending so much time on alchemy, kabbalah/bible studies and hermetic philosophy otherwise.
@cosmosaic81174 ай бұрын
@@JerehmiaBoaz Keen insight. Why indeed did he hardly ever mention astrology? You may be onto something.
@Dragonblaster14 ай бұрын
I have a copy of Newton's _Opticks,_ with a foreword by Albert Einstein, in which he acknowledges his debt to Newton.
@graham21055 ай бұрын
Thankyou..Mr kendall, I always enjoy your videos..
@JasonKendallAstronomer5 ай бұрын
You are very welcome
@garysnewjob5 ай бұрын
27:35 In other words, "Shut up and calculate. " 😂 🎉
@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi3 ай бұрын
People are still trying to figure it out
@markhughes79274 ай бұрын
I think he might say ‘hey Albie - gravity’s an effect - not a thing…’
@peterwexler57375 ай бұрын
It's pronounced "prinnkippeeah. "C," in the middle of a Latin word, is pronounced as a K.
@whlewis91645 ай бұрын
@@peterwexler5737 as in Julius Kaiser
@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi5 ай бұрын
We don’t pronounce it that way these days
@mikev46214 ай бұрын
@@whlewis9164 Eee-oolius
@cosmosaic81174 ай бұрын
@@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gilol yes we do
@truthpopup4 ай бұрын
Newton was no dummy. I think he would understand relativity if it had been explained to him.