(January 5, 2013 at 10:31 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Not strictly speaking accurate amigo. Newtonian physics dropped our probes on Mars. In fact, an accepted "theory" is a body of work so well attested that future discoveries would seem to be more likely to modify, rather than replace them (or make them obsolete).Not just mars, all our probes are sent using it - to the moon, in to orbit, etc, we only really use general relativity for GPS. But that's not the same as saying you believe the world works the way that Newton's world-view was, it's simply saying his calculations are relevant and usable despite the theory long being obsolete.
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