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Originally Posted by RascalPuff 
"...particles of bodies... either mutually impelled towards each other... or are repelled and recede from each other..."
Please tell me what you think of this ('gravitational alternative').
Thank you.
- RP |
The passage in question is profound - it expresses insights which could not be fully formulated at that time - it's poignant to me.
I'm not too sure Newton was proposing an actual 'gravitational alternative' but to me it prophetically anticipates such things as the discoveries of electricity, electromagnetism and atomic structure.