Rubes by Leigh Rubin for March 17, 2023

Not good at appled physics, anyway.

He didn’t allow for windage.

A lazy apple. The principle of least action.

Apple follows the space-time vector.

What really happened here? Did that apple have the same charge as Newton? Were there magnetic fields involved? Did the apple not believe in Newton’s Laws of Motion?

Isaac Newton’s story was that he saw an apple falling from a tree and he started thinking about gravity and – according to one John Conduitt – how far does it reach, and, according to William Stukeley, why down, particularly.

Reported here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-core-of-truth-behind-sir-isaac-newton-s-apple-1870915.html

That an apple fell on his head is only a joke, a long lived one.

A suggestion has existed that Newton was making a different joke about the so-called absolute truth of the bible and the Garden of Eden story by considering an apple, but if that is the evidence, it isn’t borne out. The reported speech only talks about the physics of gravity. I don’t see a reason to doubt Newton’s apple experience, either. For that matter, the “King James” bible doesn’t mention apples in that story. The word “fruit” is used. But traditionally, it’s an apple.

Anti-gravity

Bad aerodynamics.

He was just a bad apple. Or else, he got sauced before falling?

Coriolis effect?

Go home, apple. You’re drunk

Research paid for by the Anti-Gravity Society

Apparently, the Law of Gravity doesn’t appley to him.

Would Newton have discovered cartoon physics if he had sat under an anvil tree?

All is not lost. He’s going to be researching pi very soon.

The leaf altered the aerodynamics…

have to allow for the wind

he was thinking of something more important … cat doors