Episode 8: Seeds of Doubt – Einstein, Newton, and the Truth in Tension

🌺 Hey my Lilies,

In this episode, we’re exploring the Seeds of Doubt — the tension between Newton and Einstein that led to one of the greatest breakthroughs in how we understand our universe.

Einstein didn’t destroy Newton’s work—he built on it. What began as a challenge became a foundation. And sometimes… that’s how life works for us too.

📖 Scripture tie-in: Romans 8:28 – All things work together for good…
💡 Theme: Sometimes your opposition becomes your foundation.
🌱 Takeaway: Don’t fear the questions. Doubt can be the very thing that leads you to purpose.

Let this episode remind you: even when you’re unsure, you’re still orbiting purpose.
Keep imagining. Keep seeking. Keep growing.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, my lilies, Welcome back to Incan Impact Episode eight
Seeds of Doubt, Einstein, Newton, and the Truth intention. Today

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we're diving into something a little cosmic but also deeply personal.
It's about science, it's about legacy, it's about Newton, it's
about Einstein. It's about you, because sometimes your opposition becomes

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your foundation. Let me explain.

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Speaker 1 (01:21):
In Newton's view of gravity, a planet can only follow
an elliptical orbit. But Mercury's orbit does something different. It shifts.
It doesn't just move in a loop. It traces a
beautiful rigettic, like a flower in space. For years. Not

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confused scientists not the fact that it went in a circle.
Noon's law couldn't explain. It came in Einstein. Einstein's theory
of gravity, his general theory of relativity predicted precise like

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that precise shift. Okay, that seemingly small mystery in Mercury's motion.
It became one of the key triumphs of Einstein's theory.
Einstein's model also included a cosmic speed limit of the

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speed of light. Nothing, not even gravity, could move faster
than that. To put it into numbers, light travels at
three hundred thousand kilometers per second. Okay, that's six point
seven million miles per hour from the Sun to the Earth.

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So here's a contrast. Newton would have predicted that if
the Sun disappeared, the Earth would fill the lack of
gravitational pull instantly. But Einstein, he said, no, it will
take light eight points six minutes to react to Earth.

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Only then would we know something happened. That delay. That
insight changed everything. According to the BBC Sky at Night magazine,
the difference wasn't just numbers. Einstein didn't believe gravity came
solely from mass as Newton believed. He saw that energy

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in all its forms as mass too, sound energy, heat,
energy even thought in a way holds weight in her universe.
So here's the big question. What was the glue that

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brought all this together for Einstein? What drove him to
challenge Newton but still honor him? To me It was
his imagination, that divine gift that lets us see beyond
what we can prove, the ability to ask what if
over and over again until it becomes what is? Einstein

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would play these mental movies in his head constantly, constant scenarios.
One of his most famous thought experiments. I'm gonna show
you now, imagine this. You're on a moving train. That's

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thunder in the sky. Two lightning bolt stripe, one in
front of you, one behind you. I remember you're moving,
so the sound of one bolt reaches you before the other,
not because they struck at different times, but because you're
moving towards one and away from the other that moment

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right there, That's how Einstein began to understand relativity, not
with proof, but with imagination. So what does this mean
for you? It means doubt is not always the enemy.
It's a seed, a seed of understanding, a seed of growth,

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a seed of a legacy. Just like Einstein questioned Newton,
you might be questioning a belief, a system, even yourself.
But what if your doubt is what makes room for
a bigger truth. Romans eight twenty eight says all things
work together for good, not some things. All things even

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your tension, even your delays, even the opposition that makes
you feel like you're off course. Einstein didn't erase Newton,
he expanded him. So today I want you to ask yourself,

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what are you questioning that could actually be your breakthrough?
What thoughts feel too big to say out loud, but
to write to let go? What if this moment you're
in is shaping the world you called to influence. I

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put myself in Newton's shoes, in Einstein's shoes, and I ask,
what am I doing right now that's making history, even
if no one knows it yet, Because just like Mercury,
we're not moving in circles. We're spiraling forward, tracing rosettes

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and the sky, even patterns of proof that we were
here and we thought deeply, and that my Lillies is
a beautiful tension to live in. Thanks for listening to

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you guys, keep thinking, keep doubting, and keep writing brilliance

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into this world not for now, Lilies