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Newtonian physics is the easiest example to criticize, because it’s precisely what I said: special relativity was a new model to fix blatant flaws with the previous model. Occam’s razor only concerns comparing two theories which account for the same phenomena. Special relativity was a new model that accounted for more phenomena, so it’s really not surprising (and certainly not a violation of Occam’s razor) if it was less simple.