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Newton’s First Law

  1. I’m trying to understand if this is a joke, a conspiracy, a stolen intellectual property or plain old scholastic sophistry.
  2. It may be all of the above but one this is certain: this is not a law of nature.

Is Newton’s first so-called law a law?

  1. No. If by “law” we mean a law of nature Newton’s first law is not a law that can legislate nature in this world because Newton’s first so-called law is based on several supernatural and absurd notion that unless we suspend our disbelief we cannot take them seriously.
  2. The first law is the law of inertia, right?
  3. First of all a law must make a single statement. Newton’s first so-called law makes several dubious statements.
  4. Every body…
    1. We define something as a “body” if it moves as a unit. So, we define bodies by their motion.
  5. perseveres
  6. in its state of rest…
    1. There’s no state called rest.
    2. Rest can only mean absence of motion. But all is motion and change of motion so by definition there is no rest.
    3. A “law” that assumes that rest exists cannot be a law of nature because rest does not exist in this world.
  7. or of uniform motion…
    1. Uniform motion is forced motion, it is not inertial motion.
    2. You need to propel a body to sustain uniform motion. This is how our world works. Yes in a Newtonian fairy tale bodies can move uniformly without a propeller.
  8. in a right line…
    1. This is a joke nothing moves in a right line unless kept on a right line
  9. unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
    1. You cannot impress a force.
    2. Motion can only be transferred.
    3. Motion can only be transferred from one motion to another.
    4. In order to change the motion of a body you need to hit it.
    5. There is no transfer of motion without contact.
    6. Only motion can impart motion. Newton violates this universal rule.
  10. What Newton states as his Law 1 cannot be a law valid in this world because it is only a silly collection of Newton’s hallucinations.
  11. I admit that Newton’s Law 1 can be a valid law in a fairy tale.

straight line is forced motion

  1. you need to input energy to make circular motion linear motion
  2. straight line motion is propelled motion

Acceleration does not nesecssarily imply force

  1. This is proved very easily in the case of an accelerating airplane. There is acceleration but there is not attractive force
  2. Somehow, I’m sure that Newtonian sophist will be able to explain away this problem

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Law 1

  1. Every body continues in its state of resting or of moving uniformly in a straight line, except insofar as it is driven by impressed forces to alter its state.
  2. Projectiles continue in their motions except insofar as they are slowed by the resistance of the air. and in so far as they are driven downward by the force of gravity.
  3. A top, whose parts, by cohering, perpetually draw themselves back from rectilinear motions, does not stop rotating, except insofar as it is slowed by the air.
  4. And the greater bodies of the planets and comets preserve their motions, both progressive and circular, carried out in spaces of less resistance, for a longer time.
Comments
  1. Obviously, this so-called law can be a law only in Newton’s Wonderland, not in our world.
  2. First of all rest is not a state.
  3. We don’t observe any resting object in this world. Again, I don’t know if rest exists in Newton’s Wonderland but it does not exist in this world.
  4. In the Scholium after the Definitions Newton goes deep into a scholastic discussion of absolute and relative stuff.
  5. Newton is a master of red herring and arguing with a straw man. Newton is a master of every rhetorical and polemical deception techniques in the handbook of scholastic philosophy.
  6. I don’t even understand why we are taking Newton seriously in philosophical matters. This guy has no qualms about explaining natural phenomena as the work of gods.
  7. Newton is a scholastic doctor who shows all of the ugliest properties of being a scholastic doctors.
  8. Newton has an agenda and he is writing to enforce that agenda.
  9. Newton’s writing to justify his use of rest a state do not concern us a bit.
  10. We know that rest is not a state therefore this cannot be a law of motion let alone a law of nature.
  11. There’s no rest, all is motion.
  12. And what is measured is change of motion. As was said thousands of years ago all is change.
  13. This includes motion too, motion must change. Change in motion is acceleration. This is our axiom and rule and law.
  14. This guy, who is a certified megalomaniac, claims to have discovered the laws of motion but the first thing he says is to claim that lack of motion is a state. This is absolutely wrong.
  15. And his second claim that every body continues in its state of moving uniformly in a straight line is just absurd.
  16. We never observe bodies moving on a straight line, all observed motion in space is curved. For some reason all bodies moving in Newton’s straight line are no longer around. Apparently they all became curved motions in the early universe.
  17. What kind of law is this? This is a law, so-called, is valid only in Newton’s Wonderland.
  18. And Newton’s impressed force is a lie too.
  19. Newton’s impressed force may be and is in the case of gravity a non-contact force. Non-contact forces do not exist in this world.
  20. Newton’s so-called first law of motion is wrong in every claim that it makes.
  21. This law so-called makes three claims and all three claims are absurd and wrong.
  22. This cannot be a law it cannot even be an axiom.

Created: 2025-02-19 Wed 13:02

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