What if Newton was never born?

[Vivaldi]

How would things be then?

[capriVib]

If Newton hadn't existed, satellite GPS, vehicle braking systems and fiber optic cables enabled by optical science as well as the internet and cameras, wouldn't have been developed or would have been discovered much later. Similarly if Leibniz hadn't developed derivatives and integrals, the computer science and algorithms indirectly enabled by them would also have been absent or significantly delayed.

Sir issac Newton:
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore... while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

[slatyb]

Someone else would have done the same not much later. Newton wasn't the only one working on a model of planetary motion, and he wasn't the sole inventor of calculus.

[Vivaldi]

He was seen like a god in physics until the early 20th century. Newton's physics could not be questioned by anybody until the early 20th century.

[Vivaldi]

And this person was born in 17th century

[slatyb]

I'm not minimizing his brilliance, just saying the time was ripe -- his work was built on the work of Copernicus and Kepler and Galileo and others.

[jazzy34]

I’m sure another scientist would’ve come along and “discovered” gravity.

[Vivaldi]

But Newton was seen like a god in Physics until the beginning of 20th century. Nobody could dare question Newton.

[jazzy34]

What part of what I said above are you struggling with?

[Vivaldi]

Newton who was born in 17th century was seen like a god in Physics until early 20th century.

Nobody could dare to question Newton Physics until early 20th century.

I think you did not get this part

[slatyb]

Newton didn't discovered gravity. He created a theory of gravitation that served to predict the motions of both objects on Earth and planets in space. Others were also working on the problem, notably Herschel, but Newton determined that planetary motion was explained by a force that decreased with the square of the distance from the sun.

[purplepoppy]

Newtons laws would now be Smiths laws or something.

[AngryCarl2]

Without Newton's invention of gravity we'd all be floating in space. Terrible!

[WonderingManII]

Probably someone else would just do what He did.

[Vivaldi]

Newton who was born in 17th century was seen like a god in Physics until early 20th century.

Nobody could dare to question Newton Physics until early 20th century.

Someone else couldn't replace him obviously.

[WonderingManII]

@Vivaldi
Do you believe that Newton was the only person on the planet smart enough to be the god of physics? I don't think so.

[Vivaldi]

Newton's Physics could not be questioned by anybody until early 20th century. And he was born in 17th century.

[WonderingManII]

I still think someone would of figured out the same stuff. It might have been at a later date. But it still would of happened. Nobody can be replaced as a person. But what a person does, can be replaced.

[Vivaldi]

Until the early 20th century, he remained a god whose physics could not be questioned.

[WonderingManII]

No big deal.

[Vivaldi]

If someone's physics could not be questioned by any person later, this makes that person god-like.

[WonderingManII]

LOL!

[beefcakebradybatson]

NFL quarterbacks wouldn't have been so big, swift, powerful and cannon-armed.

[contentious]

You have to eat Fig Putin's

[Anonymous]

No cookies?