Quote: physicists do Babylonian mathematics because different formulations of the same law give different clues for related laws

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Mathematically each of the three different formulations [of the law of gravitation], Newton's law, the local field method and the minimum principle, … As long as physics is incomplete, and we … what might happen in other circumstances. In that … may look like in a wider situation. … [p. 54] We must always keep all the alternative … but little attention to the precise reasoning from …   Google-1   Google-2

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