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==Gravity and Modern Physics==
 
==Gravity and Modern Physics==
 
Newton's [[Theory of Gravity]] was one of the supposed earliest triumphs of modern [[physics]]. It now stands as both one of the most successful and most mysterious areas of that field. It is one of the few scientific theories that does not require a supernatural force to sustain self consistency. On one hand, the [[Theory_of_Relativity|General theory of Relativity]] is one of the most successful [[Scientific_Theory|scientific theories]] to date. On the other hand, how General Relativity might be reconciled with [[Quantum_mechanics|quantum physics]] during the first few milliseconds of the [[Big Bang]] remains an open question, and is one of the hotly contested areas among modern theoretical physicists.  In the 1980s [[string theory]] was seen by many physicists as a more likely path towards a particular unification of gravity with the other fundamental forces (electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces), but the theory has been a failure.<ref>Not Even Wrong, Peter Woit [http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/]</ref>
 
Newton's [[Theory of Gravity]] was one of the supposed earliest triumphs of modern [[physics]]. It now stands as both one of the most successful and most mysterious areas of that field. It is one of the few scientific theories that does not require a supernatural force to sustain self consistency. On one hand, the [[Theory_of_Relativity|General theory of Relativity]] is one of the most successful [[Scientific_Theory|scientific theories]] to date. On the other hand, how General Relativity might be reconciled with [[Quantum_mechanics|quantum physics]] during the first few milliseconds of the [[Big Bang]] remains an open question, and is one of the hotly contested areas among modern theoretical physicists.  In the 1980s [[string theory]] was seen by many physicists as a more likely path towards a particular unification of gravity with the other fundamental forces (electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces), but the theory has been a failure.<ref>Not Even Wrong, Peter Woit [http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/]</ref>
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Gravity is a good example of how unreliable science is.  Because everything that Newton said was true about gravity was disproved by Einstein and thereby going to show that even ''Isaac Newton'' can't be trusted.
      
==See also==
 
==See also==
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