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Flat Earth General / Re: How can you dismiss all the space footage?
« on: March 26, 2024, 05:56:47 AM »Quote1. An object in motion tends to stay in motion unless an external force acts upon it. Similarly, if the object is at rest, it will remain at rest unless an unbalanced force acts upon it.If I were to knock a series of balls tied to a string, it would seem like this "law" that things stay in motion would mean this process never stops. But this is in violation to real scientific laws, those of the laws of thermodynamics. Motion does indeed wind down, as energy is gradually lost through conversion. Only a rare few things exist in perpetual motion. The sun, the moon, the tides. Stuff like that exist as long as there is an Earth.
Similarly, objects change despite themselves when left in stasis. They gather dust or cobwebs, people set on a couch forever either become morbidly obese (whereupon the couch collapses and from staying at rest, they are suddenly in motion) or they starve to death and have to be moved due to the stench.Quote2. When a force acts on an object, it will cause the object to accelerateNot all forces are forces of motion. When entropy acts on an object, it generally causes it to lose energy (slow down)Quote3. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.More snappy patter words to sell nonsense theories. Newton was a marketeer and a plagiarist, not a scientist. Is there always equal reaction? Is it always opposite? And how can he possibly say for every action?
In fact, he actually did self-proclaim these The Laws of Motion.
https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/NATP00105
They weren't laws because of scientific method. They weren't laws because of peer review. They were laws because of practical usage.
They were laws because "Sir" Isaac Newton said so. And everyone went along with what he said. Excuse me, Newton, but you're no knight. I hereby undub thee Sir Isaac Newton. You are now "Just Some Hack."
"They were laws because of practical usage." You said it yourself. Everything else you said is garbage, but you managed to debunk your own garbage with this one sentence of truth.
Just another fumbled attempt by a flat earther to discredit an esteemed scientist.