Recent content by OccamsRazor

Ive only read one, James Gleick was the author I believe. I was looking at another by Westfall but its pretty thick and I didn't want to dive in without a recommendation or any burning passion. Do you know if it's any good? While I am sure there are great resources on this I really wrote the...

Do you think Newton's piety was important to developing or fueling his philosophical and psychological impulses to be a great scientist and mathematician ? Did his religious and alchemical goals orient his scientific researches; his outstanding mechanical, mathematical, and optical theories...

I actually do have that book, do you have a chapter name or page number that addresses this question? Would you suggest making the thread simply of the second question ?

when you say the technicalities limit our ability to define where energy-momentum is localized, do you mean technicalities in the theoretical framework of GR? I figured since it was a classical theory that things 'exactness' were capable. and even if kinetic and potential energies (or energy...

So, in nontechnical language, would the constraint of energy conservation cause space to bend in a way that will compensate for any kinetic energy increase? Is there energy associated with curved space (intrinsic to the space, and not merely a passive player that tells matter how to move in a...

Apologies for not doing too much research prior to asking this question; I suppose actually delving into the mathematics would reveal the answer I'm looking for but I haven't taken the time just yet. Considering the concept of GR where matter/energy tells space how to curve and space tells how...

I was reading the Wikipedia page on Dynamism in order to get an idea of the motivation and thinking behind Liebniz's physics. In it there is this paragraph: In the opening paragraph of Specimen dynamicum (1692), Leibniz begins by clarifying his intention to supersede the Cartesian account of...