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[chomps]

Newton's Third Law is WRONG.

Sort of.

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[chomps]

...By the way, this wasn't some attempt at making a cryptic comment about how life is unfair; Newton's Third Law is actually wrong.

[sarahmon]

You're the physics major...but....how? Like, if you think something, just the action of thinking dosn't cause a reaction. Or is it simplier?

And if it's so wrong that shouldn't you be petitioning to have the third law of motion reformed for all school text books and such?

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[chomps]

In most cases, any action causes an equal and opposite reaction, but in many situations, the reaction isn't equal and opposite. One example: A charged particle accelerating through space will create electromagnetic fields which will exert a force to slow it down. In effect, the particle slows itself down, with no equal and opposite reaction. There are better examples.

I could also petition all text books to stop saying that electrons orbit the nucleus of an atom, since it's completely wrong, but there's really no point in changing it for most purposes.

[timothium]

There also isn't anything such as an 'Unconscious'
so while they're fixing the section on Newton, they should fix the one on Freud as well

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[tanukisuit]

Freud is pretty wrong anyways what with his whole sexual development theories.

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[timothium]

I applaud Freud for giving a shot at the question of how the body creates the 'I'

But, at the same time its weird how his followers kept finding so-called evidence for'infantile sexual fantasies' at increasingly younger ages. Makes all of psychoanalysis look like a huge cover for Nambla.

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[tanukisuit]

Yeah.
Also... Freud's child developmental theories seem really illogical/wrong when compared to Piagets, Eriksons, and Broffenbrenner theories.

[timothium]

Also in the 'Newton's a hack' file,
The myth about him creating calculus is bullshit
Leibniz's system was created before Newton's and had a greater influence on modern notation.

[terriblestorm]

This is totally unrelated, but you never added me back. :-/
Granted, I can't imagine you writing a whole lot of friends-only entries, but still!

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[chomps]

Oh, yeah! Sorry about that.