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• Free fall
  ...desic geodesic]. The present article concerns itself with free fall in the Newtonian domain.
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• Isaac Newton
  ...is widely recognised as one of the most influential [[scientists]] of all time and as a key figure in the [[scientific revolution]]. His book ''[https://e ...helped convince most Continental European scientists of the superiority of Newtonian mechanics over the earlier system of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descart
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• Copernican Revolution
  ...centrism (left) and to geocentrism (right), before the Copernican-Galilean-Newtonian revolution. Note the retrograde motion of Mars on the right. Yellow dot, Su ...a heliocentric system versus the widely accepted geocentric system of that time. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe Tycho Brahe] accepted Copernicu
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• Paradigm
  ...ctices that define a scientific discipline during a particular period of [[time]]. Kuhn himself came to prefer the terms exemplar and normal science, which ...e violation of the conservation of momentum, or ways to engineer reverse [[time travel]].
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• Momentum
  ...at mass and velocity are fundamental and conserved, everywhere and all the time.[3] [[Galileo]], later, in his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_New_Scien ...of "momentum" in its proper mathematical [[sense]] is not clear but by the time of Jenning's Miscellanea in 1721, four years before the final edition of Ne
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• Appendix III: Space Levels of the Master Universe
  ...having existed from "near eternity" (164,2), but they do have an origin in time. Each superuniverse is isolated from the others (179,11); these are evoluti ...of Paper 12 gives a general picture of these outer regions. At the present time they are unorganized and uninhabited. It is believed that the finaliters ar
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• Determinism
  ...a bomb dropping from the air. Through [[mathematics]], we can predict the time the bomb will take to reach the ground, and we also know what will happen o ...s can be free, if there is a being who has determined them for us ahead of time.
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• Time
  There are two distinct views on the meaning of '''time'''. ...is sometimes referred to as [[Newtonian time]] (''Newton's Views on Space, Time, and Motion'' - Stanford University [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/new
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• Relativity
  ...ension and generalization of the corresponding principles in classical, or Newtonian, [[mechanics]]. ...[[relative]] [[motion]] of observers affects their measures of length and time.
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• Integrity
  ...ir congruence with empirical observation. A value system may evolve over [[time]] while retaining integrity if those who espouse the values account for and For example, Newtonian [[physics]], [[general relativity]] and [[quantum mechanics]] are three dis
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• 2014-05-09-New Era Conversations 21
  ...roup of celestials—to discuss the co-creative work of Michael’s Correcting Time. We thank you for being here; we thank you for including us and our audien ...and it is a time of contemplation and reflection as they move about. This time can be very useful for minds to make connections of the loose ends of their
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  ...d see the fact of evolution as including all developmental change from the time of the Big Bang. ...olution were first mooted in the seventeenth century with the extension of Newtonian ideas from the mere running of the universe to its supposed development thr
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• Gravity
  ...that free-falling objects can accelerate with respect to each other. In [[Newtonian physics]], no such acceleration can occur unless at least one of the object * The prediction that time runs slower at lower potentials has been confirmed by the [[Pound-Rebka exp
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• Cybernetics
  For a time during the past 30 years, the field of cybernetics followed a boom-bust cyc ..., and metamaterials (the study of [[material]]s with properties beyond the Newtonian properties of their constituent [[atom]]s), have led to a revived interest
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• Physical Cosmology
  ...celestial bodies obey identical [[physical law]]s to those on earth, and [[Newtonian mechanics]], which first allowed us to understand those motions. This is no ...down, meaning that the average energy per particle is getting smaller with time. Therefore the radiation becomes weaker, and dilutes faster than matter. Th
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...d the dynamism of the human [[mind]], which he thought worked according to Newtonian principles of conservation. His centering on sexuality and his [[understand In 1879 and 1880 Freud served his time in the military as a medic, completing his medical degree in 1881. The foll
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• The Sciences
  ...ad the same sort of very broad meaning that ''[[philosophy]]'' had at that time. In other languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, th Isaac Newton's Newtonian [[mechanics|law of gravitation]] is a famous example of an established law
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• Scientific Method
  ...ationship'''. The hypothesized causes must precede the observed effects in time. ...Counts of things, such as the number of people in a nation at a particular time, may also have an uncertainty due to limitations of the method used. Counts
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• Science
  ...ad the same sort of very broad meaning that ''[[philosophy]]'' had at that time. In other languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, th Isaac Newton's Newtonian [[mechanics|law of gravitation]] is a famous example of an established law
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• 2012-01-06-Conversations with Monjoronson 37
  ...ion]] on [[2011-12-16-Conversations with Monjoronson 36|consciousness last time]]. I found it most informative. ...the [[moments]] of [[infinite]] [[time]]. It is difficult to [[speak]] of time or in the [[future]] from a [[perspective]] of the [[eternal]]. The [[juxt
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