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by xpe 798 days ago
Relativity did overturn the previous assumptions! It converted what were assumptions into the consequences of another theory.
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glenstein 797 days ago
A beautiful way of putting it. I like this phrasing because I think it shows how progress in science actually elevated our confidence in Newtonian behaviors by having them as a special case of a theory with a stronger foundation.
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xpe 797 days ago
I got the idea from Max Tegmark's book "Our Mathematical Universe".
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