Newton really was a true genius. Calculus was one of the most brilliant accomplishments of human intellect, and tons of stuff today is built on top of it or uses ideas from it. Like Einstein just in a league of his own.
+Samurai Jack And where is the evidence of this? Random philosophical musings about reality aren't discoveries. The advancements in math, and their usage in understanding reality, are _thee_ major breakthroughs. Here is a quote from the Indian who talked about gravity : "we say that the earth on all its sides is the same; all people on the earth stand upright, and all heavy things fall down to the earth by a law of nature, for it is the nature of the earth to attract and to keep things, as it is the nature of water to flow, that of fire to burn, and that of the wind to set in motion." This isn't some groundbreaking discovery, it is basic philosophy that uses simple logic.The earth is the same on all sides, people stand upright, heavy things fall, etc. These are basic observations. When Newton published his book Principia Mathematica, there were only a few humans alive at the time that could understand it. Like Tyson' said, Newton discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, and the laws of optics. Then he turned 26. He didn't just point out obvious logic, he used his mind to invent the mathematics that explains these things, which is beyond absurd.
Highly advanced knowledge of the cosmos and reality? Are you fucking kidding me? In comparison to what we know now? LOL The precursors to calculus are 4,000 years old, and those Indian findings pale in comparison to the work of Newton. Indian astronomy borrowed a lot from the Greeks, but who gives a shit about these works from the past? This is all basic shit, and isn't even in the same solar system as Isaac Newton. Read your original comment: "Except Calculus, along with Laws of Motion, Theory of Gravity and Planetary Motion were one of the many advancements discovered much earlier in Ancient India." Those weren't comprehensive theories of gravity, or laws of motion... Holy Fuck, they are basic observations, and a bunch of data tracking from the sky. Newton didn't make simple observations about the motions of planets, he literally probed into the nature of reality, and created extremely advanced work to explain it mathematically. Do you seriously just search for random articles and information to form a worldview that makes you feel good about your culture? These things aren't even close to being on the same level, and you are lying by calling them laws and theories, especially since we are in the 21st century.
Samurai Jack Labeling any of that bullshit a "theory of gravity" is a mockery of modern science. It is very telling that you become upset when your delusional fixation on inconsequential history gets pointed out, you start throwing around "lest" and 4chan insults like a Dunning Krueger bicep curl.
Marduk is it something you observe? it's an observation. Get a body of facts behind it and repeatedly confirm it through experiments and observations for a theory.
@@RCDetanico Einstein had photos of what he considered the 3 greatest scientists of all time in his office. Newton, Faraday and Maxwell. Einstein only contributed a fraction of what Newton did and he needed his wife to do the complex maths for his theory of relativity. What did Newton do to prove his theory of gravity and laws of motion? He invented an entire new branch of mathematics - Calculus - which transformed the world of mathematics, science and engineering. Newton is far superior to Einstein.
@@oot007 what the actual fuck bro, newtons mechanics doesn't work in deep space where gravity is too high, instead Einsteins laws of motion and gravity work there, newtons laws are just a subset of Einsteins laws, Einsteins was, if not smarter but certainly as smart as newtonn, just read bout theory of relativity in detail and your mind will be completely blowned.
@@akshatzz_iitb6052 You have no idea. Newton surpassed all Mathematics before him by discovering Calculus, invented the first reflector telescope the type that is still used by observatories around the world. Einstein need his mathematician wife to provide the proof for this theory of relativity. NASA and co use Newton's laws to send rockets and probes to the Moon and planets of the solar system, they do not use Einstein's theories. Einstein's theory itself does not work in Black holes. Einstein had the advantage of Newton's work and 300 years advancement in science and technology but his contributions are negligible compared to Newton's. The vast majority of engineering - civil, aero, chemical, mechanical are heavily founded on Newton's work. If you have a degree in engineering you would know this.
@@HopDavid Newton claimed to have developed most of calculus etc. over 20 years before publishing his works so at ~25 or something. But Neil has his timeline and facts messed up, indeed, since Newton did not invent calculus because of that question but actually just proved the elliptical orbits from 1/r^2 law by old math keeping calculus a "secret".
Not a bromance because Isaac probably wouldn’t even have an interest in talking to Tyson as he is leaps and bounds more intelligent. More of a man-crush.
Tyson's timeline: Newton explains planetary orbits and invents calculus before he turns 26 -- in just two months -- on a lark! But then Newton just stopped when he ceded his brilliance to God. It's a completely addled timeline and a false accusation. If Newton were alive today I believe he would sue Tyson for slander.
I consider him to be the greatest kind of all time.. I respect all the brilliant minds. But when you see all the passion and hard work he put to do all the things he discovered it's amazing
Isaac Newton was one of the greatest geniuses of all time but let's not forget that Gottfried Leibniz deserves a lot of credit for inventing Calculus as well. The evidence shows that they both independently discovered/invented the same methods albeit from different approaches. Leibniz made along with the techniques themselves significant contributions to the notation used in Calculus. So while Tyson is correct in saying Newton Invented Calculus, it is also correct to say that Leibniz invented a good portion of it. Both incredible minds.
I love this man. He is spot on. We all know that there are a few jealous users, judging by some of the comments below, who perhaps, come from a less successful countries. I love the nasty comments about Great Britain. Keep them coming folks, as you make yourselves look even cheaper.
That is why he is classed a 'genius' by experts is it? Who do I believe? The History books, or you - an empty keyboard. Another guy who resorts to name calling. Carry on hating. I would rather be British, than anything else. Where is your proof. Like the way that you try to belittle my country, without any evidence, and you call me 'ignorant' - Matter of 'fact', only in your head. I am not your 'mate' Have a good evening.
Better still. Have a read down the page. Thankfully, there are only a few of you (haters) onboard. I wonder what you've achieved lately? Most people know that the guy was a genius. All you can do, is call names - easy over a keyboard, is it not?
Neil Degrasse Tyson is a famous Professor, and you're an empty keyboard. Who do I believe? One curious question though. You're not one of those (left wing) nut-jobs, that voted 'remain' are you? Just get that feeling, as it is only the left wing nut-jobs, that hate their own country and its history, yet still choose to live under her protection. This should be an interesting answer - or in your case, a barrage of abuse.
I think that you'll find that 'Great Britain', that small island, has had more influence on the world than India, we discovered India, not the other way around. I have no problem with India, as I've heard all the nonsense, about how "Germany is better than Great Britain - America is better than Great Britain", and so on, it is just laughable to be honest. Check my Facebook page out, wait for it (I proudly served for my Queen and country for 16 years). Would you like me to prove that? Just wondering. Have you ever served for your Queen and country? I would be interested to know that, being as you purportedly "love my country more than you do." I've been called all the names 'warmonger' and worse, it is usually the cowards, that sit on their bottoms doing nothing. Some things never change. Newton was a genius, to say otherwise, is absolutely preposterous. I respect 10 other countries and their respective influences on this 'amazing' world. In no particular order. China. Japan. Greece. Italy. Egypt. United Kingdom. Portugal. Russia. France. Spain. You'll find that a lot of hatred pours out against the UK, as a lot of people do not, and will not accept, how much this small Island changed the world. The Industrial Revolution, was one very big step, to say the least. All have made major contributions to the progress of mankind. Believe me, I've done my little bit for my country. What I did in my personal life, was my choice. Have a good evening.
I'm not your 'mate' - any chance of your address. I can give you a chance to be big to my face. Of course not, you have facts, nor logic. Go make me a pot of tea.
Here in England we have a phrase to remember ROYGBIV - colours of the rainbow. Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain - referencing The Battle of Bosworth.
samslick90 Probably, though I doubt all would have been conceived by one mind. But I guess that applies to any theory of physics or great discovery or invention. Even geniuses are replaceable eventually, but it takes a long time for another mind of that calibre to come along.
Clarification. NDT reads everything Newton wrote about math and science. Newton did MORE work on theology and alchemy, so his owning everything he wrote is a pretty big exaggeration.
12:05 I think this is most of us, honestly. Like, just how the fuck are there beings in this vast universe that are actually capable of understanding it? Do you realize how crazy that is? We're incredible - even the dumbest piece of shit you've ever seen is phenomenal.
Indeed, Tyson is very repetitive. And much of his oft repeated stuff is bad history and misinformation. For one thing Halley asked the famous question about elliptical orbits when Newton was 41. All this stuff Newton did before he turned 26 is complete bull shit.
@@michaelmelling9333 There is this website known as Google. www.mathpages.com/home/kmath658/kmath658.htm And there are a lot more. As I said it's a famous question.
wait a minute, physicist were called natural philosophers back then? THAT is a SO MUCH BETTER title than physicist, especially for those religious people who continue to turn down everything that has been taught by observations recorded as "science."
@5:23 this is how we know 9/11 was a lie, because the top portions of the buildings were accelerating to such an amount that to the bottom portions of the buildings they hardly weighed anything at all therefore couldn’t possibly be destroying the bottom portion of the building, and when you go back and observe the collapse you notice that it looks a little strange and the reason is because there is no deceleration, there is no dynamic loading, there is no transfer of energy from the top portion to the bottom. Instead it just falls through it like a knife through hot butter as if there was never a bottom portion there to begin with
6:45 No, Newton didn't invent calculus on a dare in a few months. Has Tyson heard of Fermat? He was figuring out slopes of curves and area under curves before either Newton or Leibniz. hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2016/01/fact-checking-neil-degrasse-tyson.html#Newton
I guess Isaac Newton is a great example that a little knowledge of science makes you think God doesn't exist but that a whole lot of knowledge leads you to think that God, whatever that means, needs to exist. Newton believed in God. Being an atheist is a major sign of arrogance
You are confusing "God", and the possibility for "a god". You are so fucking stupid it hurts being on the same planet as you. And you have no clue what an atheist is. You were born as one, dunce.
eddie lasowsky nope! for example, the insight leading to the formulation of the fundamental theorem of calculus was from his mentor, Isaac Barrow! the science community need to stop this madness of deifying an individual scientist and attributing a revolutionary idea just to one person well in fact countless other scientist made significant contributions too!
also the idea of limits already existed during his time. i think isaac newton simply developed calculus' further applications in physics that's it. but the math is NEVER his!
Isaac Newton was a true genius but by all accounts a total asshole. So I wouldn't want to meet him or have dinner with him because I think I would come away quite disappointed. No one wants to discover that they don't actually like their heroes on a personal level. I totally acknowledge his towering intellect but I would skip out on dinner to go watch a movie or something. :-)
You have a point. Although, unless you have a background in optics you might have to get Newton to invent you a projector. He'd probably lecture you about why he's smarter than Leibnitz while doing it.
Apparently by contemporary accounts Newton wasn't a popular teacher, and his lectures were generally poorly attended. Possibly his intellect meant that he didn't suffer fools gladly. Having a great mind doesn't always equate to being a great communicator.
Myth: if you are in orbit or in freefall you are weightless. NO! Weight is the pull of earths gravity ON you...(or if you are near another planet it may be used to designate that pull of that planet ON you).You may also speak of the pull of the earths gravity (or of a planets gravity on an object). If you and your space ship are falling toward the earth at an equal acceleration, then you and the space ship are keeping pace with each other. Your not moving faster toward the flood of the space ship, as both your movements and that of the ship are the same. This does NOT mean...the gravitational pull on you or and the ship is zero relative to the ship and the earth is zero. If the ship did not have the pull of gravity, it would not stay in orbit as there would be no force to keep the ship from moving off in a straight line. Think of swinging a rock on a string in a vertical circle and at the top, cut the string. The rock should continue in the horizontal direction, not continue in orbit. Orbit means there must be a force toward the center of orbit OR continued rocket firings to correct direction. The same is true for you. If YOU did not have the earths pull, YOU would not continue in orbit. You would not matching the pace of the rocket ship in orbit. Re you are weightless in a falling elevator. NO! the earths gravitational field acts on YOU and on the elevator. Since the gravitational field effects both the same way, you and the elevator flood keep pace. You do not accelerate faster than the elevator and therefore move toward the elevator floor. Because you dont seem to move toward the elevator floor this seems as though you no longer have weight...ie like the earth is no longer pulling on you. IF you and the elevator were REALLY weightless, you and the elevator would float and you would not hit the ground. Im STUNNED this alleged physics expert...is having trouble with basics of gravitational pull, the definition of weight, etc as should be taught in a decent HIGH SCHOOL physics class. Its unfortunate as he is WRONG. Astronauts floating in a space ship are not weightless. They are at the same acceleration as the floor of the ship and thus NOT gaining on that floor. They will as soon as the ship hits a planet and stops moving. Remember too that if a planet stops the space ship motion and if the astronaut had truly become weightless somehow...the astronaut would continue to float in the landed ship. Dr Katherine Rogers
At no point did he say the gravitational pull stopped acting on you. That would be retarded. Also by your definition of weightlessness it does not exist wherever you are in the universe since as long as you have mass you're always subject of some amount of gravity. Either you know very well that by weightlessness here Dr Tyson means when the different forces/accelerations acting on you match each other and you're trolling or you're just a complete moron. Dr Aboubacar
Pretty sure it's in consensus that the notion of 'weightlessness' is a misnomer. But it's a technical misnomer. Nonetheless. If the meaning is accurately conveyed, why the fuck sit around debating the way it was conveyed?
Katherine Rogers, we were taught in high school that weight is not the pull of the earth on you, it is the normal reaction you feel from the earth's surface. It is a vector pointing away from the center of the earth. In both a lift and in a spaceship in orbit, you are not feeling any normal reaction. Neil Tyson has been wrong on a few issues previously, but here on this point, he is right.
but the gravitational force does not pull on you per se. the earth curves spacetime and you thus fall don't you? i dont remember learning THAT in high school.
It's funny that an athiest loves and admires a scientist that was very much a believer of God.and also a believer in prophecy and a creationist. Ironic huh.
Richie Jarvis It’s funny that a ignorant and religious person uses the fruits and advances of science to try to sound smart with a comment in RU-vid. Ironic huh.
Galileo once said “the bible can teach you how Togo to heaven, but not how the heavens go” Isaac newton did some great work and it’s not like NDT is just gonna say fuck Newton. Also newton didn’t complete his work on gravity cause he left the rest to god. Leibniz finished his work...
Issac Newton was a true genius. During his time he saw things nobody has ever dreamed of seeing. "Talent hits a target no else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see." -Arthur Schopenhauer
I think god has more than one son. Don't you? And what about their sisters? Does god not have daughters too? Maybe he cares for every bacteria too since he must have made them too? Or don't they count? Is a bacteria less important than an acorn or and what about mushrooms? I think you need to sit down and have a little rethink. So a book is a history book. So? Great. There are no facts that a man walked on water. Or am I wrong?
Here it is big problem with this world. Newton way so much more then smart. We put inteligence above all so we rate people on this foolish scale starting by fools and ending with geniuses. But this is wrong and dull. American culture I guess.
If Tyson were truly passionate about Newton, he'd get it right. So much bad history and misinformation in his presentations. What Tyson is passionate about is promoting Tyson.
@@michaelmelling9333 Tyson is a source of falsehoods. I invest some time and effort calling them out. Are you okay with Tyson inventing history to support his political talking points? If so how are you different from Trump's birthers?
He also said “were eyes created without knowledge of optics. We’re ears created without knowledge of sound?” He was a genius, but he didn’t understand evolution. If he had evolution explained to him, he would’ve agreed with the insurmountable evidence supporting it. He was a genius, but you can’t think of everything.
@@ConnzorZGaming what evidence? Your THEORY of evolution doesn't have any evidence. You can't even show the missing link, that will prove your belief. Evolution is not true. Humans are humans. Apes are apes. Time never stops then why human stops evolving?
sad that our schools don't encourage kids to figure it out their way, instead our schools force us to learn the same way as the books presented to them. this becomes apparent when in school i would have my own math forums that always gave me the right answer, yet the teacher would mark it wrong and say i have to use their forums. before we can create more geniuses, we need a better school system.
And it's not really even the fault of the teachers; it's the curriculum that is designed to churn out unimaginative drones who will slave away for 40 years doing mindless, repetitive work.
If you don't value Newton's theological thinking that gave him the psychological profile for his science then you don't really love Issac. You are misinterpreting the real Issac Newton, who was more than a scientist. You don;t have to share his theology, but clearly see its effect on his motives for working in science.
It was Edmund Halley who asked Newton about why orbits follow elliptical paths. This was in 1684 when Newton was 41 years old. This bit about Newton answering the question in two months before he was 26 is garbage. But Colbert doesn't know the difference. www.mathpages.com/home/kmath658/kmath658.htm
although newton was obviously miles ahead of the average physicist today, let alone the astrophysics evangelist tyson, newton corresponded with people from all walks of life. a good deal of his letters are preserved, he didn't have some kind of prejudice against speaking with ordinary dum-dums.
Fermat, Barrow, Gregory, Cavalieri and others had laid the foundations of calculus in the generation before Newton. And the question about the elliptical orbits? Halley asked that question when Newton was 41. Most of this stuff Newton supposedly did before he turned 26 is complete bull shit.
Top 10 greatest minds ever. Newton exhibited strengths in empirical creative tinkering and deep analytical thinking. At 23 he made some of the most influential contributions to science and math.
No single person of the approximate 100 Billion that have passed on this earth or will ever pass have the influence that this one special, special man has had on the development of human kind as this one so, so special man has had. No one can ever claim the contributions and thinking of this man. Genius to a level unbeknown ever before or ever again made his life difficult and if you know the man, he suffered and had a hard life but we, and I thank him as we would not be here as we are without him.
