Ep 86: The Aim of Science
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Nuton's Prediction to Kepler's Laws of Motion
You can reduce nuton's prediction to keplars by assuming that the orbiting planets, like jupiter or earth, eccetera, have zero mass. But as poppa says on exactly that point, and i'll quote him, he says, this is quite a good approximation from the point of view of nutans theory. A body with zero mass would no longer abay nuton's laws of motion. Kepler's third law contradicts nuton's theory. Only after we are in posession of neuton's theory can we find out whether, and in what sense, the older theories can say it to be approximations to it end.
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