Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality
Sean Carroll
When Isaac Newton first wrote down his law of gravity and he's thinking about in the Principia Mathematica how to derive the motions of the planets around the Sun, Isaac Newton was pretty smart. He didn't just say let's idealize a planet as a point. He knew that planets had size and so he put in the work to show that as long as the planet is spherically symmetric,
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