Comment on What is the Speed of Gravity?parentComments−scott_s16yI don't. Technology had not yet progressed to the point that one could design experiments to test relativity. And such technology depends on insights from other areas of physics.Quoting Cecil Adams (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/957/was-isaac-newto...),[He] took six thousand years of disjointed fumbling and made it into a science. Two sciences, actually, physics and to a large extent mathematics.Feeling any "ha, he" that he missed a development 200 years later loses perspective about what he did.−eru16yYes. Although Newton did lose out on notation. Leibniz had the better notation for integrals and differentiation at around the same time.
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I don't. Technology had not yet progressed to the point that one could design experiments to test relativity. And such technology depends on insights from other areas of physics.
Quoting Cecil Adams (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/957/was-isaac-newto...),
[He] took six thousand years of disjointed fumbling and made it into a science. Two sciences, actually, physics and to a large extent mathematics.
Feeling any "ha, he" that he missed a development 200 years later loses perspective about what he did.
Yes. Although Newton did lose out on notation. Leibniz had the better notation for integrals and differentiation at around the same time.