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Re: Newton not entirely right

From Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Newton not entirely right
Date 2015-09-28 11:09 -0500
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On 9/28/2015 1:26 AM, Peter Riedt wrote:
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> Newton's law of universal gravitation is incomplete. It considers gravity a force of attraction
> but it does not account for celestial bodies that cannot complete the descent to their primary.
>

I have no idea what you're talking about here, Peter.

Orbiting bodies would not follow ellipses if they weren't attracted. 
They would travel in straight lines. Attraction doesn't require that the 
two bodies end up in contact. What makes you think they would?


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Newton not entirely right Peter Riedt <riedt1@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-09-27 23:26 -0700
  Re: Newton not entirely right Dirk Van de moortel <dirkvandemoortel@hotspam.not> - 2015-09-28 16:00 +0200
    Re: Newton not entirely right kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-28 11:49 -0400
      Re: Newton not entirely right mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-09-29 01:13 -0700
        Re: Newton not entirely right kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-29 14:48 -0400
          Re: Newton not entirely right pnalsing@gmail.com - 2015-09-29 13:19 -0700
            Re: Newton not entirely right kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-29 16:56 -0400
              Re: Newton not entirely right pnalsing@gmail.com - 2015-09-29 14:06 -0700
                Re: Newton not entirely right kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-29 17:43 -0400
                Re: Newton not entirely right Kent Beeler <kenbee@jefffast.au> - 2015-09-29 21:59 +0000
                Re: Newton not entirely right pnalsing@gmail.com - 2015-09-29 15:39 -0700
                Re: Newton not entirely right kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-29 19:44 -0400
                Re: Newton not entirely right pnalsing@gmail.com - 2015-09-29 19:37 -0700
                Re: Newton not entirely right kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-30 00:27 -0400
                Re: Newton not entirely right pnalsing@gmail.com - 2015-09-29 21:42 -0700
                Re: Newton not entirely right kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-30 02:57 -0400
                Re: Newton not entirely right pnalsing@gmail.com - 2015-09-29 21:44 -0700
                Re: Newton not entirely right kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-30 02:58 -0400
                Re: Newton not entirely right Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 07:56 -0500
                Re: Newton not entirely right Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 07:32 -0500
          Re: Newton not entirely right mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-09-29 22:45 -0700
  Re: Newton not entirely right Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-28 11:09 -0500
    Re: Newton not entirely right Peter Riedt <riedt1@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-09-28 18:32 -0700
      Re: Newton not entirely right kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-28 21:57 -0400
        Re: Newton not entirely right Peter Riedt <riedt1@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-09-28 19:39 -0700
          Re: Newton not entirely right Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-28 20:10 -0700
      Re: Newton not entirely right Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 07:07 +0200
        Re: Newton not entirely right Peter Riedt <riedt1@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-09-28 22:51 -0700
          Re: Newton not entirely right Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 08:20 +0200
      Re: Newton not entirely right Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-09-29 16:32 +1000
      Re: Newton not entirely right Helmut Wabnig <hwabnig@.- --- -.dotat> - 2015-09-29 09:51 +0200
      Re: Newton not entirely right Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 07:38 -0500

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