(August 31, 2026 at 5:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: @Jal(my bold)
Quote:“That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else... 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."
And yet light from the Sun (one body) acts upon the Earth (another body) at a distance without the mediation of anything else.
Looks like Newton was wrong. Maybe you should take everything he said as authoritative or apodictic.
Boru
Odds that he proposed ether?
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