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This Is What Happens When Legislators Don't Learn Science in School

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EPR-radar7/03/2014 4:56:21 pm PDT

re: #92 FemNaziBitch

wait . .

So at what distance does Newtonian Gravity stop applying?

Newtonian gravity can hold over very long distances (e.g., extra-galactic distance).

Newtonian physics breaks down when things move very fast (special relativity), when gravity is intense (general relativity), and for atomic/subatomic physics (quantum mechanics etc.).

The beauty of something like Newtonian physics is that even when it is superseded by a better theory, it remains as useful as it always was in its domain of validity.