Newtonian Physics: Is it Compatible with Relativity?

[Atari_Me]

Newtonian Physics states in part that 'every object has an absolute state of motion relative to absolute space, so that an object must be either in a state of absolute rest, or moving at some absolute speed.'

Granting that if absolute space were to exist, we have no means to measure it at present and therefore irrelevant, is there anything in the above aspect of Newtonian Physics that is incompatible with Relativity?

 

[russ_watters]

Newtonian Physics states in part that 'every object has an absolute state of motion relative to absolute space, so that an object must be either in a state of absolute rest, or moving at some absolute speed.'

Newtonian physics doesn't say that.

Granting that if absolute space were to exist, we have no means to measure it at present...

That isn't true either. 130 years ago there was a famous experiment that should have found it if it existed.

...is there anything in the above aspect of Newtonian Physics that is incompatible with Relativity?

Newtonian physics is incompatible with the constant, finite speed of light.

 

[Dale]

Newtonian Physics states in part that 'every object has an absolute state of motion relative to absolute space, so that an object must be either in a state of absolute rest, or moving at some absolute speed.'

Note that modern Newtonian physics does not say this.

Several centuries ago Sir Isaac Newton began Newtonian physics, but he did not finish it. He did say something similar to this but that statement was changed afterwards by later physicists. Now, Newtonian physics is understood to follow the principle of Galilean relativity and Newton’s statement was rejected.

It is important to understand that even the great scientists are not considered infallible and are not considered to have the final word on their theory. They have the first say, not the last.