Practice #81 - Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton is responsible for modern science.

Episode Transcript

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Number two on the list of the most influential people in history is a guy named Sir Isaac

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Newton.
Now, I've heard of Isaac Newton for a long time in my life, but I never really knew kind
of what he did or just how great he was, just how much he changed the world.
Because Isaac Newton kind of coasted along his life in high school.

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He wasn't really doing much.
He wasn't really notable.
He was not a notable figure.
So much so to the point where his mother actually pulled him out of school and said,
okay, let's be a farmer.
He was going to be a farmer.
Now no shame to farmers, but our world would not be the same if he became a farmer.

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Now let me explain.
He decided not to be a farmer and he decided to go to Cambridge.
Cambridge?
I don't know.
And there he quickly absorbed all of mathematics, all of science, like all of this stuff, and
he, like, it's literally a genius.
And it's crazy because when he was literally 20 years old and even in college, he started

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to lay out the foundation to his inventions and his new mathematical formulas and laws.
And when he was around 23, he discovered this law.
I don't know the actual order of events, but I'm just going to say.

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He discovered the law, the second law of gravity and the third law of gravity.
And then he also discovered this formula called F equals M times A, force equals mass times
acceleration.
I think it's that.
And that basically allows you to basically apply mathematics because at the time, mathematics

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was simply just genius people kind of like playing a game.
There was no real application.
And really for the past 3000, 4000 years, people have been pretty much living the same
lives.
Like, the lifestyle between someone in the year 2000 BC is very similar to the someone

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living in 1500 AC AD, AD, like after Jesus died.
So this basically, this new mathematical formula basically allowed him to make mathematics applicable.

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So what that means is now people can start inventing things, creating things like a telescope.
They can start inventing literally anything.
Like you look at anything on my desk and it's probably been created because of what he,

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like this formula that he created.
And he didn't just create formulas and laws.
He also showed us how to apply them and actually invent something and how they're actually
able to be practical.
And he became like the world's most notable astronomer and completely revolutionized the

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fields of astronomy, thermodynamics, the study of sound, I forgot what it's called.
And then like all of these things.
So this guy is responsible for, like he is the, okay, one scientist, one genius scientist

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said that he was the greatest of all geniuses.
So think about this.
There's normal society and then there's geniuses.
These guys are highly famed, highly coveted, extremely smart people and they're like the
top 1% of society.
Now Isaac Newton, he is kind of like the difference between normal society and genius.

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That's like 1%.
So now let's say genius is a new society and then Isaac Newton is the genius of the genius.
So let's say normal society is the 99% and then genius is the 1%.
Now let's create a new society with just the 1% of all of the geniuses.

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So now these guys become the 99% and then Isaac Newton is the 1%.
So that's how great Isaac Newton is and he is responsible for tremendous amounts of inventions
and like he is the one that showed people, he provided the blueprint for modern day life.

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That's a great summary.