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Evolution Article in National Geographic
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From
04/12/2004 18:00:41
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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03/12/2004 18:56:18
Hilmar Zonneveld
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Cochabamba, Bolivia
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>Under normal, everyday circumstances, Newton's laws still maintain their validity, but under certain extreme conditions, they have to be replaced by more accurate formulae, from the Theory of Relativity, or from Quantum Physics.
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>This brings up the question, what parts of Newton's theories are still considered valid, and what parts not.

Newton's mechanics is always invalid, but...

Try to calculate the same thing under Newton's formulae, and under relativistic formulae. The difference will appear somewhere on the 6th significant digit, or even lower than that - depending on the speed. So it's wrong, but the error is below our radar, for most of practical uses.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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