The legend of Einstein's revelation of the equivalence
principle has been repeated, endlessly.
"A person in free all doesn't feel his body weight!"
um, wow. Wasn't this obvious to every physicist for
200 years?
Did Newton himself miss this profundity?
Color me unimpressed -
RichD wrote:
"A person in free all doesn't feel his body weight!"
um, wow. Wasn't this obvious to every physicist for
200 years? Did Newton himself miss this profundity?
Color me unimpressed -
Rather, you should be impressed that it took 200 years
for a person to realize the profound -consequences- of
this simple observation.
On February 4, ProkaryoticCaspaseHomolog wrote:
"A person in free all doesn't feel his body weight!"
um, wow. Wasn't this obvious to every physicist for
200 years? Did Newton himself miss this profundity?
Color me unimpressed -
Rather, you should be impressed that it took 200 years
for a person to realize the profound -consequences- of
this simple observation.
That's a reasonable response.
However, the legend is always represented such that Einstein
was the first to ever see this, thus stamping him as a Jeenyus.
This simple fact of weightlessness flew beyond Laplace,
Hamilton, et alia? Ludicrous.
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