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Newton's "Principia" stolen
Silverleaf writes "O2 have a story on the theft of Isaac Newton's revolutionary "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" from a Russian museum. For the non-physicists among you, Newton first published his famed three laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation in "Principia" in 1687. I'm surprised this theft hasn't attracted more attention in the mainstream media, since "Principia" is generally considered the most important scientific works in history."
I've read it, and I have to say it makes for a pretty frustrating read. He spends pages upon pages basically reinventing calculus in the context of each problem. You'll probably spend most of the book wondering why he didn't just listen to leibnitz in the first place. He probably would have saved himself a whole lot of time (and ink).
Isn't the Principia Mathematica basically obsolete? Who cares what happens to an old rag except for nostalgia mongers?
Woot! Einstein in da House, yall!
"God is all knowing, all powerful, and all loving. Because he is all knowing, he knows all the possible worlds he could have made. Because he's all poweful, he could make any worlds he knows. And because he's all-loving, he would only make the best of all the possible worlds for us of those that he knows (all of them) and can make (all of them)."
And that, dear children, is how the rabbit lost his tail....
What so amazes me is how people with such idiotic ideas rattling around in their heads could have actually found enough properly functioning brain cells to solve major problems in physics.
Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus.