18 MAR 2013 by ideonexus

 The Moon is Binary in Nature

Having heard the poem, Monkey went up to him and said, "Master, you only know about the moon's beauty, and you're homesick too. You don't know what the moon's really about. It's like the carpenter's line and compasses−−it keeps the heavenly bodies in order. On the thirtieth of every month the metal element of its male soul has all gone, and the water element of its female soul fills the whole disk. That is why it goes black and has no light. That's what is called the end of the old moon. ...
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Old Chinese way of thinking about the moon, with the bright side as yang and the dark side yin.

08 FEB 2012 by ideonexus

 The Earliest Account of Newton and the Apple

In the year 1666 he retired again from Cambridge... to his mother in Lincolnshire & whilst he was musing in a garden it came into his thought that the power of gravity (wch brought an apple from the tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from the earth but that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought. Why not as high as the moon said he to himself & if so that must influence her motion & perhaps retain her in her orbit, whereupon he fell a c...
Folksonomies: gravity newton moon apple
Folksonomies: gravity newton moon apple
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Includes the fact that he extended the force pulling the apple to the ground up to the moon.

19 APR 2011 by ideonexus

 Newton Saw that the Moon is Falling

One had to be a Newton to see that the Moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't. - Paul Valery
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One had to be a Newton to see that the Moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't. - Paul Valery