Newton's Gravity

Released: May 9, 2026 8:00 AM CST

Here is the sixteenth episode of Quantum Foam, Newton's Gravity. This is going to have to be a different test of the system. It is a great Saturday afternoon. We still have courtyards. When I was in ninth grade we were studying physical science, specifically Newton's Third Law of Motion and many coincidences happened during class one day. Since eighth grade, I knew I wanted to study physics. Kepler showed empirically how orbiting projectiles spin around the Earth. We need to understand fundamental chemistry in order to study physics. F equals m times a is Newton's Second Law Of Motion. The distance between objects are being modeled as point particles. We need to do a primer on Kepler which deals with energy relationships for objects in orbit. Newton said there had to be a grand math that included Kepler's Laws Of Motion. Johannes Kepler summarized the star charts and other papers of Tycho Brahe. He was his contemporary. He created 3 laws of orbital mechanics. Law 1 states that orbits are actually ellipses. Law 2 is when an imaginary line sweeps out equal areas and is drawn from the center of the orbiting planets. Law 3 is when the ratio of the squares of the periods of any 2 planets is actually equal to the ratio of the cubes of those planets averaged distances from the sun. You get a harmony out of this. We are able to triangulate because of this. Trigonometry and Calculus are similar. Linear Calculus is used as a notation to look at this entire subject. Go find another hot world where you can act like a reptile. We're apes. We do what apes do. The laws of physics are the same as they were at the beginning of the universe. We understand planetary motion now because of Kepler and we understand gravity better now because of Newton. It takes 1 revolution of our planet around the sun to make the motion of 1 full year.

What is the gravitational constant? No one could figure out what the correct inertial reference frame was. Newton had another nemesis and contemporary rival, Robert Hooke, who was stranger to the idea of the exactitudes of Newton's gravitational mechanics. There was a rivalry between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe and there was some public competition between Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke. Newton used Haley's comet to calculate the position of the comet in 2 spots, once before it went around the sun and once after. There may be some other important experiments that will need to be done testing General Relativity. We want to see what has happened starting from 3 minutes after The Big Bang. Private sector business and research and development in England were different at the end of the seventeenth century than they are now in the Midwest United States. Back in the day people were coming up with systems of the world in the 1660s. Who wasn't a philosopher of the day? People had discussions about details that may not matter for our study of physics here and now. I am describing physics and other concepts that can be debated in the court of science. Recognition sometimes is a must. The gravity helps us describe point particle approximations. Flux Theorem sounds cool. Gauss' Law is equivalent to Newton's Law Of Universal Gravitation and are 1 in the same. Gauss' Law can be used for Electrostatics. Newton built the first reflecting telescope. One day we will attempt to describe gravity with gravitons. We will examine whether or not a graviton exists or if it is just a mathematical quantity. Gravitons can weakly interact with other particles. Newton's Gravity is where we begin in understanding this phenomena.