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Re:Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't A... by podocarp on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:43AM (#49121918)
If you have a reasonable grasp of Newtonian gravity you would also be unable to conclude that. A wrestler flailing a skinny guy around, from the POV of the skinny guy, is still definitely not the skinny guy flailing the wrestler about. I don't see what's to argue here. Given all facts, then there is no POV that results in the conclusion the sun goes round the earth. Just like how there's no placement of the camera that results in you claiming I'm pushing the earth away.
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Re:Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't A... by stbede on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:49PM (#49128929)
I agree with the example of human agents because we can acknowledge concepts like will, choice, agency, etc. But none of those ideas are present in Newton's laws of motions.
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Re:Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't A... by IIsi50MHz on Friday July 31, 2026 @11:37PM (#49130798)
Will, choice, and agency are unnecessary for explaining the example. It can be described simply by the forces exerted. The locations of the observers or sensing equipment matter little in this case, though they do become problematic when attempting discern whether heliocentric model fits unaided observations from a planetary surface.
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Re:Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't A... by stbede on Saturday August 01, 2026 @01:57AM (#49131471)
Am I wrong to think that because equal and opposite forces are always present, names have to be given to phenomena that are not present in the formal math itself?
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