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And it's still consistent with most of our everyday evidence. It hasn't been falsified, it's been expanded. There's a difference.
by cbd1984 11y ago
And it's still consistent with most of our everyday evidence.
It hasn't been falsified, it's been expanded. There's a difference.
- scott_s 11y agoNo, the universe Newton described was falsified. In the Newtonian universe, information (including gravitation and electrical attraction) travelled instantly. Kuhn talks about this concept quite a bit in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". Relativity was not merely an expansion of the Newtonian explanation of the universe. It was a complete change of our understanding of how the universe worked, even though relativity reduces to the same equations as Newtonian mechanics at low velocities and low masses.