Isaac Newton

So when the Roman Catholic comes and tells us that the church is as infallible as the Bible, And they say the reason is because the church gave you the Bible.

I'm like, bro, how? Did Isaac Newton give us gravity? I don't understand.

Did Isaac Newton give us gravity? Gravity was there.

Isaac Newton just realized, boom, oh, there's gravity everywhere.

The church, the people of God recognized that these are God's word to us and that's why they brought it together.

The fact that the council sat down, what that council did was to recognize it was not to invent.

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even when attained they are a delusion the very essence of unreality therefore ponder well the earlier rules and lay a firm foundation of courage sacrifice selflessness holiness book three one the binding of the perceiving consciousness to a certain region is attention or tarana interpretation Emerson quotes Sir Isaac Newton as saying that he made his great discoveries by intending his mind on them.

That is what is meant here.

I read the page of a book while thinking of something else.

We're going to run through these all really quickly.

So the scientist that proposed the three laws of motion is Isaac Newton.

Good guess with Albert Einstein, though.

Yeah, yeah, I couldn't think, yeah.

Hipparchus traced out this phenomenon and established it on an impregnable basis, so that all astronomers have ever since recognized the precession of the equinoxes as one of the fundamental facts of astronomy.

Not until nearly two thousand years after Hipparchus had made this splendid discovery was the explanation of its cause given by Newton.

From the days of Hipparchus down to the present hour, the science of astronomy has steadily grown.

One observer after another has appeared from time to time to reveal some new phenomenon with regard to the celestial bodies or their movements, while from time to time one commanding intellect after another has arisen to explain the true import of the facts of observations.

We shall commence with Ptolemy, who, after the foundations of the science had been laid by Hipparchus, gave to astronomy the form in which it was taught throughout the Middle Ages.

We shall next see the mighty revolution in our conceptions of the universe which are associated with the name of Copernicus.

We then pass to those periods illuminated by the genius of Galileo and Newton.

And afterwards we shall trace the careers of other more recent discoverers, by whose industry and genius the boundaries of human knowledge have been so greatly extended.

So what even is color in the first place? I'm going to argue that there are two ways of describing it, which are basically captured by two figures,

and Goethe.

Let's start with Newton and the scientific description of light.

Visible light can be understood as waves of electromagnetic radiation.

The human eye can perceive wavelengths of about 400 to 700 nanometers, or one nanometer is one billionth of a meter.

The colors we see in the world are the result of the way in which these receptors respond to different levels of blues, greens, and reds that are reflected by materials.

In the book, The Physics and Chemistry of Color by Kurt Nassau, he enumerates 15 different causes of color, including everything from the incandescence of flames, the rotations of blue ice and water, and the interference of soap bubbles.

in the same way.

It's like the same shit as like, okay, what if Isaac Newton didn't, you know, come up with all of like the laws and understandings of like modern physics? Like somebody would have.

It would have just taken

time for another guy to fucking do it.

Yeah, no, trust.

Two was two, right? That's what I was thinking.

Isaac Newton, bro, I'm not gonna lie.

He really just looked at some shit and was like, damn, if this is not moving, it's not moving.

And it is this force that binds stars to galaxies, planets to stars, and us to the Earth.

We've been aware of this force for a long time, and thanks to Isaac Newton over 350 years ago, we got the first mathematical model for describing it.

His equation contained a constant, now called Newton's gravitational constant, G sub n.

His theory allowed us to model the solar system fairly accurately, but over time we found that it was incomplete because it gave us some wrong results.

Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery.

Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, so-called, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time.

But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen, and no one ever wonders how we know.

Oh, wait, let me tell you about Cecilia Payne.

It's amazing.

Isaac Newton makes it just above Jesus.

Different people on that list.

And it's like, okay, who's the most influential person? And my reply to the people that send me this sort of thing is look at the dates look at the dates you're either born before jesus or after him yeah like he's the central figure in all of history yeah like there's no one more influential than him and yet even though he's influential many will despise him and reject him so verse 34 says he's a sign from god or it could be translated a miracle from god his whole life everything about jesus was miraculous breathtaking And yet many will reject him.