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Do you believe in God? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you know the math you know that Newton was in fact not wrong, but merely incomplete. Einstein merely added one addendum, which for Newtons experiments was always zero (for all practical purposes) anyway, so in his empirical setting he was as right as he could possibly get.

I think it’s a misrepresentation to call Newtonian physics “wrong”