I agree Marsha, people saw that things fell to the ground before Newton and, as you say, some referred to that tendency as 'gravity', but it seems Newton was the first to put some predictive numbers to it.
-KO 2009/2/9 MarshaV <[email protected]> > > Thank you Bo and Ron, > > I'm going try to live with this for a while. > > > [Ron:} >> Bo dodges the question: >> I did it up above. Let me ask you something. Do you understand >> the Newton Gravity argument in ZAMM? >> > > I'm not sure how you are setting up the 'argument'. Did gravity exist > before Newton? No. There was no recognized pattern before Newton's law of > universal gravitation. Although the label 'gravity' had been used prior to > Newton, and there were a bunch of men looking for a useful pattern to > represent it. If you want more you'll need to set up a broader problem. > > > Marsha > > > > > > > > > > . > _____________ > > Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars......... > . > . > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
