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Re:Norton’s Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newto... by jasonhansel on Saturday August 05, 2023 @01:15PM (#37014237)
Doesn't this just prove that Newton's First Law is not, in fact, equivalent to the claim that "in the absence of a net external force, a body is unaccelerated"?

(There's also the question of whether r(t) in (3) is differentiable at t=T, right?)

Re:Norton’s Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newto... by mathieutd on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:28PM (#37015504)
There is an external force here: gravity.
Re:Norton’s Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newto... by sudosysgen on Saturday August 05, 2023 @11:48PM (#37018827)
Yes, hence the two not being the same - there is no net force.