Isaac Newton
(1643 - 1727)
The founding father
of
Mathematical Physics
    The mathematical establishment holds Newton up as a god for allegedly having discovered calculus,
    the Three Laws of Motion, and the Universal Law of Gravitation. Actually, Newton fails the three
    distinctions.


    1. Calculus

    The mainstream gives the wrong impression that we were living in the dark ages and that suddenly a
    bright fellow named Newton came along and out of nowhere discovered or invented the mathematical
    technique called calculus. This is certainly false. The objective facts are that Newton published his
    version of calculus in 1687, more than 10 years after Leibniz. Nevertheless, the calculus was developed
    gradually by a body of mathematicians that exchanged ideas no differently, I may add, than the team
    that developed the transistor. A few of the mathematicians that participated in this process were Gauss,
    Descartes, and Huygens. Most of these mathematically-inclined individuals traveled and talked to each
    other and read each others' manuscripts. Despite the difficulty of traveling and low level of
    communication (compared to today's Internet), there was nonetheless feedback in those days. It was in
    this environment that the idea of calculus flourished. The development of calculus was a concerted
    effort, similar to the development of the atom bomb or the TV or the chip. As you would expect, more
    sophisticated versions of calculus surfaced with the passage of time. We can perhaps credit Newton
    with making a strategic breakthrough like Shockley made with the transistor, but this doesn't invalidate
    other contributions to this intergenerational effort.


    2. The three 'laws' of motion

    Newton is also credited with discovering the three laws of motion. The first one says that you will travel
    in a straight line unless someone bumps you. The third one say that an action generates a reaction. You
    push the bully and instantly feel some kind of pain. But it is the second law which really made him
    famous. This law, allegedly discovered by Huygens and reformulated by Newton, says that force is
    equal to mass times acceleration (F = ma).

    Unfortunately, Newton failed to follow the scientific method and his three alleged 'laws' end up in the
    trash can. Specifically, Newton failed to define the word motion. In fact, he took for granted that you
    already knew what this strategic word meant:

    “ I do not define time, space, place and motion, as being well known to all.” (p. 81) [1]

    [No kidding?]

    Then, he nevertheless gave it his best shot:

    “ Absolute motion is the translation of a body from one absolute place to another;
       and relative motion, the translation from one relative place into another.” [2]

    [Great Newt! Motion is the translation and the translation is motion. Is this what the
     mathematicians are referring to when they say that Mathematical Physics is founded
     upon 'rigorous definitions'?]

    Newton's first 'law' fails because no object in the Universe may travel rectilinearly, let alone straight,   
    for  I ask, with respect to what? Can anything travel rectilinearly with respect to Jupiter or the Moon?
    The 2nd 'law' is of concern only to Mathematics. It is a technique to calculate an amount and, thus, has
    nothing to do with Physics. Like all other formulas and equations of Mathematics, the expression
    (F=ma) is just a description that relies on still undefined terms such as mass and acceleration. A
    description without more is not Science. Until Newton gives a physical interpretation of these terms        
    (i.e., expresses them in terms of physical objects) his formula is worthless. As of today, the idiots of
    Mathematics have no idea what the words force, mass, and acceleration mean in terms of physical
    objects. The third 'law' -- I push you and you push back -- is not a law, but a trivial fact. Newton has yet
    to explain the reason for inertia. What causes gravity, Newt? What is mass?


    3.   The Universal Law of Gravitation

    If relativists have their way, Newton's contributions to our current knowledge of gravity and gravitation
    are immaterial.  According to relativity, Newton's explanation for gravity is ludicrous because it relies on
    forces and particles. The establishment has now allegedly confirmed through experiments such as
    Gravity Probe B that space is warped. There is nothing more to argue. Likewise, the mainstream
    doctrine is that Einstein's equation, which has no resemblance to Newton's other than in the petty low
    velocity scenario, is correct, and Newton's formula should be discarded. Newton's entire theory has
    been upstaged by Einstein's General Relativity.

    To make matters worse, Newton had no explanation for why his gravitation equation works.
    "Hypothesis non fingo" he declared in exasperation and added:

    " That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the
       mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be
       conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no
       man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever
       fall into it." [3]

    Therefore, if relativists are correct, Newton shouldn't get any credit for his efforts. His work was in vain.

    And then again you wonder why the people at NASA use Newton's force model and gravitational
    equation and not Einstein's when they know that Newton's physical interpretation is incorrect. Why
    does Newton's gravitational equation work if it invokes a totally different physical mechanism? This is
    what the idiots of Mathematical Physics have to answer instead of spending time and journal space on
    nonsense such as time travel and annihilation and Gravity Probe B.

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