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Kirsten
@Kirsten3531
Okay so I'm not even going to pretend to understand this but GRAVITY the only thing I ever feel like I've been anything-pilled was when a physicist explained to me that Newtonian gravity was wrong (gravity is not a force??) and instead Einstein says it's like idk ... idk guys!!
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Celeste Labedz
@celestelabedz
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What's something that you technically understand, but still seems a bit like magic? I'll start: pulleys.
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Nathan
@CaYD4D
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Ok QC you're the closest thing I have to a physicist on hand, so Why is Newtonian gravity *almost* right - not why is it wrong (I know that's when there's a lot of mass, maybe when there's little too), but why is it so close to general relativity most of the time?
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Nathan
@CaYD4D
Sorry if you're not actually a physicist and I just dropped this on you I asked someone that was doing an astrophysics degree this once and she didn't understand the question :(
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Kirsten
@Kirsten3531
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@QiaochuYuan
Yeah yeah I know it's a reasonable approximation, you can use it for your math problems, whatever... But like *the essence of what I believe gravity to be* has changed significantly
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