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Originally Posted by evman150
Sorry photon, hate to pick you up on this, but this is one of my pet peeves.
Newton wasn't "wrong", by any reasonable definition of correctness. He was merely inexact. His equations work on macroscopic scales, and they work almost perfectly. Just because they don't work on tiny scales where other equations take hold does not make him "wrong". We put a man on the moon and spacecraft beyond the solar system with Newton. Doesn't sound "wrong" to me.
Einstein did not prove Newton wrong, or turn over Newton's work. He improved upon it. Einstein's equations boil down to Newton's on a macro-scale. This would not be the case if Newton was wrong.
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You are right of course, I've posted Asimov's
Relativity of Wrong enough to know I should have worded it better.