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On Sat, 8/22/15, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Exploring neutronium
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Saturday, August 22, 2015, 9:39 AM

 > On
 Aug 22, 2015, at 7:06 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list)
 <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 >
 > I've
 often wondered how a conversation 'tween Sir Isaac
 Newton & a time-travelling current-day high school
 physics student would go when the subject of relativity came
 up…

 Pretty well, I think,
 once Issac got caught up on the math. Other physicists were
 groping around the concept before Einstein grasped it;
 Newton grasped intuitively that gravity was an attraction
 between two bodies, that it was weak, given that one of the
 bodies must be very large to exert 1G.

 I don’t think he’d have a very hard time
 making the leap to relativity at all.

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I kinda' doubt that he'd take the word of a young 'whippersnapper', not even dry behind the ears, who's telling him, the esteemed & much acclaimed Sir Isaac, that he's got it all wrong!
I greatly suspect that he'd send the young lad on his way, perhaps w/ a boot in the seat of his pants to hurry him along...

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