28th November 2005, 10:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 28th November 2005, 12:59 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Well said lazy, the thing is a forgery, at least as it is currently being used, just like that flask of saint "blood" they pull out once a year. You know, the red stuff that turns liquid and then solid as you move it? I MADE that stuff in chemistry back in frickin' high school.
As far as statements regarding Leo's personality, a lot of that is unsubstantiated from what I've heard, but then again I've only heard as much as that.
And I want to talk to you on MSN!
Newton was an odd duck wouldn't you say? After a rather disasterous relationship with his father, some of it likely to do with his desire to further his own education it seems, he basically secluded himself to his home for many years. Some speculate he was a homosexual. This may or may not be the case, but a simpler explanation may well be that he was completely and totally obsessed with defining formulas that accuratly described the world he observed, and that he did. He only got one basic "newtonian" thing wrong (later corrected by another intrepid scientist, as is the way of science) involving squaring inertia with double momentum.
His total obsession may have been the single reason he never saught a mate. However, he did have a major character flaw: the inability to take criticism well. He always took it as a personal attack when his contemporaries even made simple inquiries into his work. Towards his later years he even developed an unhealthy rivalry with another scientist working in... I'm thinking it was optics but I forget that detail at the moment. The other man may well have been none the wiser.
Anyway despite this personality trait he tended to have no objections to second guessing himself and, on top of it all, ended up being right. We do now know his models don't accuratly describe things in the world of the very fast, the very massive, or the very small, but newtonian physics is still as accurate as ever in describing what it was meant to, the "everyday experience" of Earth, and in fact any body when measured on it's own gravitational forces, as well as orbits, that you might think of, until you get to those extremes, where Einstein takes over.
A lot of the personality details are hard to nail down with any level of certainty with Newton, and as such is simply conjecture, but I believe I have listed what IS known of the man.
As far as statements regarding Leo's personality, a lot of that is unsubstantiated from what I've heard, but then again I've only heard as much as that.
And I want to talk to you on MSN!
Newton was an odd duck wouldn't you say? After a rather disasterous relationship with his father, some of it likely to do with his desire to further his own education it seems, he basically secluded himself to his home for many years. Some speculate he was a homosexual. This may or may not be the case, but a simpler explanation may well be that he was completely and totally obsessed with defining formulas that accuratly described the world he observed, and that he did. He only got one basic "newtonian" thing wrong (later corrected by another intrepid scientist, as is the way of science) involving squaring inertia with double momentum.
His total obsession may have been the single reason he never saught a mate. However, he did have a major character flaw: the inability to take criticism well. He always took it as a personal attack when his contemporaries even made simple inquiries into his work. Towards his later years he even developed an unhealthy rivalry with another scientist working in... I'm thinking it was optics but I forget that detail at the moment. The other man may well have been none the wiser.
Anyway despite this personality trait he tended to have no objections to second guessing himself and, on top of it all, ended up being right. We do now know his models don't accuratly describe things in the world of the very fast, the very massive, or the very small, but newtonian physics is still as accurate as ever in describing what it was meant to, the "everyday experience" of Earth, and in fact any body when measured on it's own gravitational forces, as well as orbits, that you might think of, until you get to those extremes, where Einstein takes over.
A lot of the personality details are hard to nail down with any level of certainty with Newton, and as such is simply conjecture, but I believe I have listed what IS known of the man.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)