Newtons Dark Secrets

52:32 Centuries old manuscripts reveal the hidden pursuits of a scientific genius. Delving into his studies from the question of G*d, to his scientific discoveries, and his obsession with alchemy...
Magic or Mainstream Science?
An interview on Newton's alchemy with historian Bill Newman
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/newton/a...

[@kalafri8789]

I’m being forced to watch this for online work due to corona

[@aliporter1300]

Same

[@bryceaverell9766]

Same

[@jamesjohnson.6]

same

[@legendarybananagamingandfu4986]

sammeeeee. lol

[@luigitaupo]

Same

[@maddyyork2907]

anyone else in quarantine yet still doing school work

[@kalafri8789]

Maddy York same I’m only here to do my school work, don’t know how these people watch this for fun

[@kristingreenleedesigns1782]

Same

[@aliporter1300]

Yup

[@AirLoomer]

"I'm extremely skeptical about the role of fruit in Newton's life." I love scientists.

[@epicscratcher5162]

Crazy someone 260 years ago could be smarter than 99.9% of people in 2019

[@santanudas1566]

It should be 99.9999999%

[@soultrick7474]

@@santanudas1566 missed few 9's

[@swastidubey089]

@@santanudas1566 I think you can say it as tending to 100 , but here we are talking of Sir Isaac Newton it can be equal to 100percent.

[@shakaguru1896]

This man's ability to concentrate was extraordinary.

[@TheEvilTwin29]

me too we have to watch this whole thing and answer like 10 questions and i'm three minutes into it i don't even think i can sit and watch the whole thing

[@shiz156]

it's been 8 years. i will carry on your legacy

[@TheEvilTwin29]

@@shiz156 lmao I don't even remember this

[@VergeDxyz]

Fuck you i have to answer 20 questions KMSSSS

[@TheEvilTwin29]

@@VergeDxyz That's rough, buddy

[@brycejarvis2505]

Sitting in class rn. See you one the other side brother.

[@spof84]

This reminds me of Carl Jung's publications of multiple out-of-print alchemy books. Jung's family recently released his long secret Red Book. In it he accounts speaking with spirits and having spiritual experiences. The human mind is no doubt complex... more complex than we can currently understand with our scientific tools.

[@madysononeale8992]

I don't know if I'm going to be able to sit and watch this movie for 52 minutes just because i have to answer questions about it for school

[@icelucasplayz7130]

I did lmao

[@jrspringston]

dang, this 240p looks GREAT on my 1080p Display!

[@PAULLONDEN]

◾ Yèh........👍😵

[@johnlandis2552]

Newton was so perceptive that it is somewhat frightening: Eg:he knew that light had "sides(polarization)a full century before Young formally reported it ;he firmly asserted that light was particulate 300years in advance of Einstein's demonstration of Planck's principle as applied to light

[@metagasm820]

The actor playing Newton is so intense, he kind of gives me the creeps.

[@adityamishra7711]

Please never remove this bro, i love this documentary, wish you all the success in life 🙏❤

[@frejusibatta416]

Newton was surely a genius

[@Misfit7878]

Wow this is so interesting i learned so much from this i feel so enlightened i am removing child hood memories from my brain to store more info on newtons theories

[@MegaTregg]

The experiments he did-makes me wonder why other thinkers of that day didn't think of the common sense reasoning behind them. Like the cannon shooting it's ball into orbit and the prism not separating one color into others showing the prism was not the cause of different colors it revealed. Maybe part of his brilliance was being able to see through superstitious beliefs of the masses.

[@intratis]

It's no coincidence that he became a Master of the Mint. Perhaps he did in fact rediscover the philosophers stone and learned how to transmute other metals into whatever element he required.

[@kirannarayan19]

Wow. Great demonstration.. I really understood too many things from it. Thumbs up to Newton n to his theories..

[@gordonshumway6128]

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That's the best one.

[@mickc6987]

A principle every child establishes as true using nothing more than a pillow :-)

[@emilsar]

Thank you for the posting!

[@bigfletch8]

People are only open to what they are ready to understand. Such visionaries always show up in perfect time. Some are not aware of their place in the scheme of things. Mozart comes to mind. The creative influence of his music on the mind is only just beginning to be realized.

[@BabyPuma124]

Good documentary. Much more enjoyable than the history channel's doc. on Newton which I consider libelous. Thanks for sharing

[@Doctorfreshjives47]

alchemy is starting to come back stronger than ever with old world technology combined with our new age tech it would have most definitely made newton proud.

[@apristinemadani]

Excellent program Loved it 👍👍❤️

[@Uenbg]

more things you can try in this experiment: - compare the 2nd or 3rd copies with the original - cut out small pieces of the 1st copy and compare them with the other copies and/or the original I think if this experiment is done with some more parameters and a big enough amount of copies, it should nicely prove that someone has been making INTENTIONAL changes throughout the ages concerning the bible (as Newton discovered as well and is well covered in his private writings or correspondence).

[@niza310]

@emilsar Of course You're welcome!

[@timhlifting]

Great documentary :)

[@niza310]

@tomek92pl What I'm talking about has everything to do with it. First I understand that base metal transmuted into gold may be interpreted as spiritual enlightenment. My issue with Your comment is that all of alchemy is not "just symbolism" it's a simple reduction of something that is more complex than that as evidence provides. Alchemy has it's philosophical, and dare, psychological parallels that may well be intended, but there are chemical processes as well that are waiting to be employed.

[@Educationscience]

Thanks for uploading.

[@Nightmar55]

thanks for the post :D!!

[@Educationscience]

Thank you for posting.

[@YT-hu1bq]

Guys what is the background classic music at 14:07 ? i really want to know the name of that background music

[@uilliambraith1055]

asser loko me too

[@topsui]

I have a friend who may have a similar mind as newton in that he sees things from a different or whole perspective. He doesnt study maths cos he has no time as he does bible study, but he still seems to stay on top of the class l ... Even for extension 3 maths

[@felipedoria4095]

Thanks for your help!

[@faafafineartist]

his alchemy 'code words' are pictorial, symbolic and archetypal

[@niza310]

@markdzima Valid point, now go see the BBC version, it is an entirely different airt. I mostly posted this for the alchemical processes being tested in the lab 27:00 minutes in to the doc.

[@Levon9404]

I truly admire Issac Newton, to me he was the most smartest man in the past practiced science. Whatever he did secretly, I think that was his own business.

[@Uenbg]

The episode I am talking about is from the show "Babylon 5", season 3, episode 9 (you can also watch it online using this link after making some corrections wdot watchfreemovies dot ch/watch-tv-shows/1994/watch-b­abylon-5-9804/season-3/episode­-9/). And the documentary interviewing Simone Liebster that can be found on youtube is really worth watching after you've watched that episode and pay attention to the part about the "Night Watch" if you do decide to watch it and hear out Simone Liebster.

[@JoeCognescenti]

Many people don't know about his brother Fig who was in the cookie business.

[@apristinemadani]

Hahaha 🤣 👍 Yeah I have been eating those Fig Newton's with Persian Tea! It's wonderful I greatly appreciate your sense of humor though 😁👍

[@IanAtkinson555]

For an object to accelerate, it must receive some sort of energy - the 'ground state' is for it to carry on moving at the same speed.

[@loveydovey4u]

thank u 4 the upload:) newton is the best

[@ehhhhhhhhhh]

This is available in slightly higher quality for free from PBS .org

[@YugShende]

History is written by admirers and story-tellers Newton was always portrayed as a protagonist But everyone has a secret life which might not be as beautiful and magnanimous as the story-tellers make it out to be. Nothing in this video surprised me tbh.

[@BfianMillerusedtobeis]

In ( ALL ) of Creation, just ( 1 )one particle either ‘ADDED’ or ‘TAKEN’ away from the total, regardless of it’s current state of existence… matter or energy… will and would ‘NEUTRALIZE’ Gravity and the law of it’s effects throughout the ‘total’ of Creation.

[@puncheex2]

It doesn't continue accelerating because there is no force acting upon it. The cannon applied force initially, accelerating the ball out the muzzle. Once clear of the cannon, no further force keeps shoving, so it the acceleration drops to zero and a constant velocity is maintained: Newton's 1st Law. Note that zero acceleration means constant velocity.

[@niza310]

@tomek92pl From Israel Regardie's THE GOLDEN DAWN "One great difference between Chemical and Alchemical processes is that Alchemy only employs a gradual heat continually but carefully increased, and does not commence with violent heat."

[@Uenbg]

well, it would become part of the argumentation for that idea/concept. It's little more complex than just confirming whether you can copy text accurately by hand under certain conditions (one thing that also shouldn't be easily overlooked is the prospect of everlasting bliss, a bit longer than 50-70 years of life to worry about if you are going to attempt to simulate for example the monks who copied the texts throughout Europe at the end and after the Roman Empire fell).

[@niza310]

@ San Dustan Bras off? Sand Dusting Bras Off? This is Kook level dedication, for a simple trolling experiment, BRAVO!

[@goerizal1]

this is a wonderful video in every way. it is somewhat hard to figure out why nova put in the words "dark secrets' in the title. imao that cheapens the whole thing. he carried on as a more than brilliant human being in his time by dealing with what was floating around then - which included the alchemy question but which he dropped when it lead him to nowhere. perhaps it maybe said that nature herself is the greatest alchemist as evidenced by the evolution of the elements in the periodic table.

[@armedox314]

imao is that a misspelling of lmao or a genuine acronym, wasn't around the internet 11 years ago so can't say much about it

[@danicoversongs]

hard work creates genius... Newton is one hard working man

[@MohammadAli-pl2sc]

Newton was basically the founder of science. Hence, he is the best physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, scholar and.... Although, before Newton science was there but in general people did not care about science until Newton's discoveries. Einstien considered Newton the hero of all times

[@lachiwainberg]

Documentary starts at 03:56

[@alm114]

Thank you Barch. It was a time when chemical and physical sciences were evolving. There were distinct scientific precedents in physics, but chemical field was largely fluid in the shape and status of alchemy. There was much greed for gold and money. One opinion prevalent was that precious money was processed in alchemy? The quacks were evolving different substances in medical field. Newton too could have been under stress to produce something miraculous, that could be cosidered precious, a fact

[@niza310]

@tomek92pl So did You watch through to 27:15 It's not all "just symbols", not to mention, His being British makes it difficult for any of the active Inquisitions of the time to really be a threat to Him.

[@BBHGoldenRepublic]

That's not so dark. It is amazing that he did not turn crazy. Many have become crazy from discovering just one thing. How is it possible that he pushed himself that much and didn't even retire.

[@markdzima]

@niza310 That part was indeed very interesting, and I was glad to learn about that.

[@NimlotArt]

If he had lived another week he might have thought of sliced bread.

[@RoyalDog214]

It's a quote from the video game Mass Effect, you can find it on KZbin by using the quote.

[@niza310]

@doverknight123 that was KZbin's call, not Mine.

[@dangerthepenguin9760]

honors sci teacher made me watch this for the next unit.

[@Thermospecialist]

In physics there is the notion of entropy - ignored in all energy debates. Entropy basically says that the more spread out the source is, the less we can take out of it. Indeed, plenty of physical motion, but spread out over huge areas - there goes your "key". Better to use less energy, e.g. with heat pumps. They give 3 times more energy (solar heat in the air) than needed to drive them. Imagine all homes would use heat pumps (starting 40 years ago), but they don't show like the wind mills ...

[@dedosdigital]

Webster Tarpley in his book Against Oligarchy , chapter How The Dead Souls Of Venice Corrupted Science , provides a profile of Newton , for anyone interested . Free to read on Webster Tarpley's website .

[@drugsr4thugs728]

It’s 2021 now. 39 more to go.

[@gomerpyle8393]

How would you know what I am educated in?

[@jehovajah]

What Newton searched for is what sir Robert Boyle communicated with him, the nature of matter. That Alchemy was so misrepresented was clear to him, for he sought the knowledge of materials and the skills of the Assayer. This knowledge he used in his post at the royal mint and in his notion of material density which under pins the mistaken notions of mass. Newton ventured but could not demonstrate a magnetic principle in gravity . As an active principle he could not explain it because of the lack

[@zajec11]

Actually I should have written that we should base our logical reason on "reality", because that's the one thing we all share and is true to everybody with a healthy mind. Logic in a created world different than our reality is consistent only in this world, but inconsistent with reality.

[@virtualdude64]

Total respect for the man.

[@conkere]

48:57 he was knackered!

[@jadenelbabili3348]

absolutely awesome!!

[@fleadle34]

what governs the motion of celestial body's... gravity, what caused them to travel forwards in the first place ?

[@nandansci]

One of the greatest personality of all!

[@kittyrocoa714]

In terms of his alchemy, we seem to have more and more gold to trade with these days; considering how rare gold is, I'd have thought concern would arise from the limitation of such raw materials, in some cases rarer than crude oil.

[@geekoist]

What's the music at 6:22?

[@learnerlearns]

For a more complete and realistic portrayal of Newton, watch Caltech's "The Mechanical Universe."

[@shakdidagalimal]

calculus "... shows up in modern science everywhere, from analyzing the stock market to modeling global warming change " LMAO - AND NOW YOU KNOW IT'S USEFULNESS

[@scienceblossom6197]

at 00:58 he says "Newton assured in an age"?!?!? Am I hearing the right thing? What does it mean?!?

[@scienceblossom6197]

Ok, it's "usher" which means "starting something in an age, being welcomed in an age, etc..."

[@Uenbg]

and here's a quote from Newton copy-pasted from wiki about that 2060 date: "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail." (source can be found via wiki) Paints quite a different picture than the way this video starts doesn't it? Do they even mention this particular quote?

[@abhinavsinha709]

Inspiring!!

[@Uenbg]

What I mean to express here is the need for a specific cause why people (who sometimes even have impressive titles, like doctor or professor) would so easily repeat such an argument (there are more) that I attempted to show you is so obviously deceptive. Also considering the fact that a lot of people who I heard repeating similar arguments also seem to claim that they are genuinely willing to help people learn the truth about a subject. Isn't that a bit self-destructive? Or does no one notice?

[@aniksptl]

47:04 what is that reaction???

[@patlafleche9645]

Watching this cause it interests me

[@mkrump9403]

one of best documentary if not the best because simple as 1 + 1 = 2...

[@kittyrocoa714]

I wonder at the level of mass the planet is, is Lorentz force helping move the planet, or is part of the earth spinning motion and does one of the perceptions of earth see Lorentz force push the inner mass inwards, which also pushes the outer mass outwards; in short must be begin regulating our earths development to prevent disaster?

[@TheMePakistani]

It's really strange but amazing that after inventing 'Telescope' he thought it to be a 'toy'.

[@jgizzy]

And I think that is a logical fallacy for them to present Newton in that way: saying he is somehow irrational in his overall person because he was deep in the faith itself. It takes as fact that religious study lends itself to a volatile and unstable mind, which should therefore beg to question the validity of his scientific work. It seems to me a lot of this was implied rather than explicitly said.

[@kakolijoardar4981]

Very good

[@elliejoy89]

I dont have time to watch this video....So can someone give me a summary of this video...what he found? Etc.?

[@Uenbg]

or if you feel like it you could possible count the amount of Newton quotes in this over 52 minute documentary (including commercials).

[@funkishness]

Whoops, the Galileo summary at 6:07 is a little, er, um, wrong... I hate it when historical docos drop the ball right at the beginning.

[@felipedoria4095]

Could someone explain why, if there was no gravity, the cannon ball wouldn't keep accelerating? Thanks for your help!

[@alm114]

Wonderful, but how are the manuscripts in jerusalem instead of london?

[@kyaume21]

This is the anglosaxon point of view on the history of science, a kind of "epical contraction" (a phenomenon in literature that various miracles are ascribed to a single heroic saint, usually based on myth or the confusing of historical facts). A mythical hero in the anglosaxon world view, Newton is the creator of modern science, of calculus, and the discoverer of gravity, etc. disregarding the roles played by Leibniz, Hooke and others. On closer scrutiny a flawed picture full of holes.

[@endofscene]

Because there would be no "force" to change the direction of its motion.

[@osamabad]

You're right. It can mean ugly or undesireable as well.

[@andydre1129]

So anyone got the answers?

[@JuanMoreno-ns5ib]

Currently high right now and determining whether its actually healthy to be very intelligent and spent 95% of your day studying and finding discoveries if that means your health and social life are put at risk.

[@niza310]

@narutoninetails12 No Problem!

[@Uenbg]

Or ask why they left out this Newton quote whenever they (and others) cover the subject of the year 2060: "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."

[@jgizzy]

I haven't watched this video, but were you able to point out any parts of the video that were bullshit or manipulated in some way to mislead or attempt to re-write Newtonian history or at least skew the perspective?

[@greasemonkeypol]

8:55 "manuscripts from others" says his biographer no doubt that Newton studied ancient Greeks

[@chris7sutton19]

It would accelerate at a constant speed because there is nothing pushing it. the only time it would accelerate at a constant speed would be if there was gravity pushing it down. His experiment with the cannon was theoretical and taking out the account of inertia if a cannon ball was shoot out of a cannon and no external forces were forced upon it then it would travel in a straight line. Only when gravity acted on it would it fall to the ground.