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I wouldn't say that. Yes, it's not exactly our modern understanding, but the core idea is the exact same: stars can get big enough that even light, which is sup
by synapsomorphy 3y ago
I wouldn't say that. Yes, it's not exactly our modern understanding, but the core idea is the exact same: stars can get big enough that even light, which is super fast, can't escape them, and that was an entirely novel idea in his time.
- bmitc 3y agoI think it's more that the effective idea is the same, while the core idea is what is so vastly different. He was arguing as if light was affected by gravity. This is totally missing the rather revolutionary idea of general relativity, best explained by John Wheeler: "Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve".