Put on your powdered wigs,you ruffled collars and your 17th century
terrestial ballistics and enjoy the show where sheep begin to talk and
have'nt stopped bleating for 300 years.


Follow Newton down all sorts of obscure absolute/relative winding
paths
and at the end Newton turns around and says - "Upon which accounts,
true motion does by no means consist in such relations.",what a trick
and nobody has thought of that escape clause device yet in this forum.

".....For if the same forces are likewise impressed on those other
bodies, with which the comparison is made, that the relative position
may be preserved, then that condition will be preserved in which the
relative motion consists. And therefore any relative motion may be
changed when the true motion remains unaltered, and the relative may
be preserved when the true suffers some change. Upon which accounts,
true motion does by no means consist in such relations."

http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/...tions.htm#time

Another trick was say to say that the 'vulgar' do not understand
time,space,place and motion so he goes about defining them as he
wishes !.The poor reader is so sick of trying to figure out what he is
talking about that he imagines that he is in someway deficient or
vulgar (which he won't admit to) while Isaac goes to extraordinary
lenghts to make things as obscure as possible !.

"Hitherto I have laid down the definitions of such words as are less
known, and explained the sense in which I would have them to be
understood in the following discourse. I do not define time, space,
place and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe,
that the vulgar conceive those quantities under no other notions but
from the relation they bear to sensible objects." Isaac

It is remarkable that in this day and age that nobody enjoys what
Isaac was up to,amid all the tortured defining and distinguishing he
makes a single switch,the most momentous in the history of astronomy -

He switches the principles behind the 24 hour clock day and axial
rotation to 23 hours 56 min 04 sec where it remains to this day among
his ballistics cronies and their cataloguer friends.

"Absolute time, in astronomy, is distinguished from relative, by the
equation or correlation of the vulgar time. For the natural days are
truly unequal, though they are commonly considered as equal and used
for a measure of time; astronomers correct this inequality for their
more accurate deducing of the celestial motions.....The necessity of
which equation, for determining the times of a phænomenon, is evinced
as well from the experiments of the pendulum clock, as by eclipses of
the satellites of Jupiter."

No wonder nobody ever comments on Isaac and his definitions and if he
had
is way he would have kept it like that forever.It is a badge of honor
to cut through the Newtonian bulltalk and see the problem Isaac
created and the vast majority still inherit,the simple matter of the
wrong rotation rate for the Earth.

100 years of bulltalk on top of 200 years of it would be enough for
anyone and it is remarkable that anything got done at all,truly !.No
offense,but I am not critising anyone in particular for ultimately it
is an enormous waste of effort and has been for centuries.The
reduction of planetary motion to terrestial ballistics with an
astronomical format that locks a person into a geocentric/heliocentric
orbital equivalency,a fishbowl universe in other words,is nothing to
celebrate yet if this is what the spectacularly phrased 'universal
laws of gravitational' amount to,perhaps you deserve each other.