| who were the Newtonians? -
01-30-2006, 01:31 PM
They are the ones who in spite of mounting evidence believed till the end that Newton’s laws with instantaneous action-at-a-distance is the only game in town. Most of them were influential people who held authoritative positions in academia, responsible for indoctrinating future generation with their growing outdated knowledge of physics based on a clockwork universe, deterministic and reversible.
They opposed Faraday’s lines of force and the idea of field completely permeating space and time.
The most notorious which include natural philosophers and mathematicians were Gauss, Riemann, Weber from Germany; Lagrange, Laplace, Ampere, Poisson from France. Some of them didn’t have any choice in term of a selection of opposing theories. Or they were too old to want to make any difference belonging to an earlier generation of physical researchers. They would certainly changed their affiliations into Maxwellians if they were reading by electric lamps not gas or by the flickering candle flame of vacillating shadow and light, dim and bright.
Time independence: [∂E(g)]²=[∂F(a)×∂r(a)]·[∂F(b)×∂r(b)] and Mass independence: ¶a(t)·¶r(t)=c²
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