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Guille · 01-30-2006, 02:59 PM

Although they didn't have an alternative theory, just if, say, Poisson, Laplace and Lagrange agreed to develop an alternative physics, with the help of alternate ideas to Newton's, then i would have chaned history. Einstein's SR wouldn't be a solution to the newton-maxwell probelm, it would be a solution to this new theory vs maxwell problem. This theory could have had, for example, Leibniz's Vis Viva, Descartes's plane instead of Gaussian and Riemannian geometries, and Lagrange's wave propagation idea of maxima-minima.

In general, what I mean is that newtonians not only were so because of the spacetime points they lived in, but also that they weren't conditioned to be so, and the fact that they assumed Newton's work might have been a not so good decision when one look sat how many good physics ideas were left out as they opposed the theories of this great.

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Guille The Thinker Status: Offline Posts: 3,278 Thanks Given: 14 Thanked 9x in 9 Posts Join Date: Mar 2005 Rep Power: 47	01-30-2006, 02:59 PM Although they didn't have an alternative theory, just if, say, Poisson, Laplace and Lagrange agreed to develop an alternative physics, with the help of alternate ideas to Newton's, then i would have chaned history. Einstein's SR wouldn't be a solution to the newton-maxwell probelm, it would be a solution to this new theory vs maxwell problem. This theory could have had, for example, Leibniz's Vis Viva, Descartes's plane instead of Gaussian and Riemannian geometries, and Lagrange's wave propagation idea of maxima-minima. In general, what I mean is that newtonians not only were so because of the spacetime points they lived in, but also that they weren't conditioned to be so, and the fact that they assumed Newton's work might have been a not so good decision when one look sat how many good physics ideas were left out as they opposed the theories of this great.