Did I become Isaac Newton ?

KHAN.
By KHAN.

All of you must be knowing the story behind Isaac Newton. Millions and millions of people had seen apples fall, but it was left for Sir Isaac Newton to ask why they fall. Isaac newton was a great thinker.

One day Isaac Newton was lying on the grass under an apple tree and thinking, thinking, thinking. Suddenly an apple fell to the ground by his side from the branch of his tree.

"What made that apple fall?" he asked himself.

"It fell because its stem would no longer hold it to its branch," was his first thought.

But Isaac was not satisfied with this answer. "Why did it fall toward the ground? Why should it not fall some other way just as well?" he asked.

"All heavy things fall to the ground—but why do they? Because they are heavy. That is not a good reason. For then we may ask why is anything heavy? Why is one thing heavier than another?"

When he had once begun to think about this he did not stop until he had reasoned it all out.

He explained it in this way:—

"Every object draws every other object toward it.

"The more matter an object contains the harder it draws.

"The nearer an object is to another the harder it draws.

"The harder an object draws other objects, the heavier it is said to be.

"The earth is many millions of times heavier than an apple; so it draws the apple toward it millions and millions of times harder than the apple can draw the other way.

"The earth is millions of times heavier than any object near to or upon its surface; so it draws every such object toward it.

"This is why things fall, as we say, toward the earth.

"While we know that every object draws every other object, we cannot know why it does so. We can only give a name to the force that causes this.

"We call that force GRAVITATION.

People like Sir Isaac Newton, are always asking "Why?" and "How?" These questions will give something to think about.

This morning I got up and started thinking...

People move with their legs...but why the hell do they swing their hands while walking.

I started watching different people and I was able to identify different styles of hand swinging?

Did I become Isaac or Did I forget my medicine today??

By Wild Turkey• 16 Sep 2015 09:37
Wild Turkey

"the object which"

By Wild Turkey• 16 Sep 2015 09:37
Rating: 5/5
Wild Turkey

Isaac Newton was wrong, just to put things straight. Object don't "fall" on the surface of Earth, they are "pushed" towards the surface of Earth because the space-time continuum is "bent" near any object with mass. And because the space-time continuum is "bent" by the object with mass any other object near will be following those bent space-time lines and will be pushed by them towards the object with causes the bending of the space-time continuum.

By acchabaccha• 16 Sep 2015 09:19
acchabaccha

I swing my hands to and fro to keep away the flies from sitting on my nose. Rizks holds on to his lungi with his hands as he needs fresh air flowing in to keep his system cool:)-

By britexpat• 16 Sep 2015 09:02
Rating: 3/5
britexpat

Please make sure you take your Medicine.

My Cuban Shotputter used to walk with a high arm swing in order to expend energy and build her triceps. On the other hand , Rizks walks with his hands down , holding his lungi

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