I wonder if he never learned of this magic tree, if he would have still discovered gravity. It seems he was driven by a thirst of knowledge but thought he needed something supernatural to obtain it? Maybe the apple was the placebo he needed.
It is interesting that in the story he did not come to his revelation until he rejected the supernatural nature of the apple and started too critically think about why the apple would fall in the first place, or why those tales existed.
Which makes me think about the story in the Bible. What if the apple actually had nothing special about it? Maybe it made Adam think, "why would god lie about this apple containing knowledge?" I am not a religious expert and am probably wrong here but interesting to think about.
Also this makes me think there are probably so many capable people, that can have so much impact on this world, and they are all just being held back by themselves. "If only i had x, I could do so much." When in reality their own observational/inference abilities are enough to achieve great things.
I maybe have completely missed the point but I really enjoyed reading this XD I like your writing especially this line: "For a brief moment, half a billion humans were alive on planet Earth, but only one of them could look at the world and see the fundamental forces that drove it, the machinery of nature expressed in mathematical equations"
"Isaac drew the sides of a triangle that filled in the area under the curve of the sloped line up to a point. That area was a triangle, or half a square, so the position had to grow with the square of time"
Wouldn't every non-constant line (at least those without discontinuities or major inflection points) be able to be filled with a triangle up to a certain point? The triangle -> half square -> x^2 thing is cool but I'm not sure that is a meaningful derivation in reality. Maybe I'm missing something though.
I wonder if he never learned of this magic tree, if he would have still discovered gravity. It seems he was driven by a thirst of knowledge but thought he needed something supernatural to obtain it? Maybe the apple was the placebo he needed.
It is interesting that in the story he did not come to his revelation until he rejected the supernatural nature of the apple and started too critically think about why the apple would fall in the first place, or why those tales existed.
Which makes me think about the story in the Bible. What if the apple actually had nothing special about it? Maybe it made Adam think, "why would god lie about this apple containing knowledge?" I am not a religious expert and am probably wrong here but interesting to think about.
Also this makes me think there are probably so many capable people, that can have so much impact on this world, and they are all just being held back by themselves. "If only i had x, I could do so much." When in reality their own observational/inference abilities are enough to achieve great things.
I maybe have completely missed the point but I really enjoyed reading this XD I like your writing especially this line: "For a brief moment, half a billion humans were alive on planet Earth, but only one of them could look at the world and see the fundamental forces that drove it, the machinery of nature expressed in mathematical equations"
Imagine, if Newton had eaten the seeds, core, and stem, we’d have a more coherent understanding of quantum mechanics 😆. Great story!
"Isaac drew the sides of a triangle that filled in the area under the curve of the sloped line up to a point. That area was a triangle, or half a square, so the position had to grow with the square of time"
Wouldn't every non-constant line (at least those without discontinuities or major inflection points) be able to be filled with a triangle up to a certain point? The triangle -> half square -> x^2 thing is cool but I'm not sure that is a meaningful derivation in reality. Maybe I'm missing something though.