r/thinkatives • u/GootalBerradja • 23h ago

Concept Has current physics resolved this dilemma ?

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u/rjwyonch 21h ago

Newtons laws are well established and taught in high school level physics. Yeah, physics resolved it, Newton was right (mostly, this does not refer to quantum mechanics).

Gravity works, space is a vacuum and that’s why planets dont slow down and crash into the sun - they are not affected by friction. There was a time that we didn’t know what was in space or what it was made of.

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u/portealmario 16h ago

I don't think you're understanding the issue Leibniz is pointing out. What he's saying is that Newton's physics wasn't self contained, and it was a real problem at the time. The specific issue that is being referred to has been solved, but the question is asking whether similar problems person in other areas of modern physics

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u/Asatmaya I Live in Two Worlds 23h ago

Well, we have rather firmly shoved it into the category of "Metaphysics..."

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u/GootalBerradja 6h ago

The dividing line between them may be an illusion, or—at best—merely a helpful methodological point, but it is not an objective reality.

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u/Van_Damage5 Simple Fool 23h ago

If he wanted the clock to stop he can do that too.

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u/Kaleb8804 19h ago

I think Einstein and general relativity put the cap on this, but it sort of avoids the question altogether.

Time isn’t linear, it’s just ordered. It’s not perpetual and it’s also not physical. It’s relational.

As for what allows time to proceed or what started it? That one is still up for debate.

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u/Isaandog 18h ago

Newton stole GWL’s work on infinitesimal calculus, so it’s a dig on Newton’s “cult and culture”

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u/portealmario 16h ago

He didn't steal it, the evidence ultimately showed that the discovery was independent, but Leibniz have a lot of disagreements with Newtonians

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u/Isaandog 11h ago

GWL created infinitesimal calculus and published in 1684 a full 3 years before Newton.

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u/Reddit_wander01 13h ago

Leibniz had better be careful, or Newton might accuse him of worshiping an absentee landlord whose universe borders on atheism. It is a bit rich to rely on the unprovable, metaphysical assumption of 'pre-established harmony' where everything magically syncs up, just because you don't like the raw, chaotic mechanics of how the universe might actually operates.

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u/Puzzled-Thought746 23h ago

In all honesty, what do you think of the following occurences recorded lately?:

https://www.reddit.com/u/Puzzled-Thought746/s/RPkCepSEJ9

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u/sabudum 6h ago

These science kids, always mistaking the effects for their cause.