AaS! 127: What was Newton's big deal?

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

Astrophysics, Science, Cosmos, Holes, Black, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Universe, Cosmology, Space, Physics

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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What was Newton’s genius? Why was his work so controversial? Why are his laws of motion so radical? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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1:00.9	Today we're going to talk about how awesome Isaac Newton was and I want to get one thing out of the way right off the bat.
1:13.1	He coined the word, gravity. Gravity. Gravity, the force that we all know and love was coined
1:21.9	by Newton. He took it from the Latin gravitas, which means weight or heaviness, so it's not exactly a big stretch of an imagination to use this word for that force.
1:33.6	But he applied it to this force.
1:36.2	And the force, he basically invented the force of gravity, too.
1:39.4	But we'll get to that in a little bit.
1:40.7	So not only did he invent gravity and gravity invented the word for gravity.
1:45.2	The word could have been anything. But Newton picked gravity and gravity it is.
1:52.2	And speaking of gravitas, if you were to make a list of the top five scientists of all time,
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