>All scientific theories we have are models used to understand and engineer our world.
>Different models have different domains of application and are ultimately just mathematical tools
>Newton’s theory of gravitation was one of the first major modern theories
>Did not claim any mechanism for gravity, merely presented equations for describing it
>Played with some mechanical ideas, played with the idea of God being the source of gravity, but ultimately maintained an agnosticism for its source.
>These emboldened the supporters of action-at-a-distance
>Literally believe bodies attract and repel each other by some inherent virtue of the body itself
>If they didn’t believe in action-at-a-distance they believed the mechanism of gravity ultimately didn’t matter so long as the equations were accurate
>Que the meteoric rise of abstract mathematical philosophy
>Que the fall of natural philosophy
>Hello crazy sensitive microscopes, telescopes, sensors, and probes
>OMG phenomena that Classical Mechanics can’t explain
>Oh, hi Einstein
>Introduction of completely new conception of space and time
>No longer abstract metrical dimensions that exist solely to quantify
>Now space-time has physical properties like curvature, permeability, permittivity
>Still maintain strict focus on the mathematical descriptions and ignore any possible physical mechanism behind the forces.
>Unknowingly reintroduce the ancient ideas of the Aether while simultaneously trying to disprove its existence
>Spacetime IS the Aether, they are different terms for the same substance
>Different models have different domains of application and are ultimately just mathematical tools
>Newton’s theory of gravitation was one of the first major modern theories
>Did not claim any mechanism for gravity, merely presented equations for describing it
>Played with some mechanical ideas, played with the idea of God being the source of gravity, but ultimately maintained an agnosticism for its source.
>These emboldened the supporters of action-at-a-distance
>Literally believe bodies attract and repel each other by some inherent virtue of the body itself
>If they didn’t believe in action-at-a-distance they believed the mechanism of gravity ultimately didn’t matter so long as the equations were accurate
>Que the meteoric rise of abstract mathematical philosophy
>Que the fall of natural philosophy
>Hello crazy sensitive microscopes, telescopes, sensors, and probes
>OMG phenomena that Classical Mechanics can’t explain
>Oh, hi Einstein
>Introduction of completely new conception of space and time
>No longer abstract metrical dimensions that exist solely to quantify
>Now space-time has physical properties like curvature, permeability, permittivity
>Still maintain strict focus on the mathematical descriptions and ignore any possible physical mechanism behind the forces.
>Unknowingly reintroduce the ancient ideas of the Aether while simultaneously trying to disprove its existence
>Spacetime IS the Aether, they are different terms for the same substance
