So?

IANAP but I think that all of Newton's laws are now considered just a crude approximation of reality, so I'll have to go with a very tentative "not really."

Hmm, maybe. I thought he proved it though?

Just as the angle of incidence does not exactly equal the angle of reflection, it is just a close approximation.

As my Physics 1 (basically Newtonian physics) professor said "everything I'm going to tell you this year is wrong, it is just a matter of how many decimal places you have to go to unearth my fallacy".

This post was edited by Azrad on Nov 30 2009 05:35pm

His fallacy of claiming it is wrong? XD

lol good point!

Newtonian physics is by no means "crude". It is correct in 99.999% of cases, but if falls short when trying to calculate the most extreme cases such as the very large (black holes, quazars, etc), or the very small (quantum mechanics).

yeah, i heard of that. and somehow einstein was trying to combine the big and small laws but his iq was too low.

You could say for each action there is a reaction. However the direction and force has to be determined with relativity.