Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?
Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?
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What goes up comes back down.
Apply math and the object flies in a parabolic arc (not accounting for air friction and wind)
Launch it high enough and the arc start lookin eliptical. Gravitational force looks less like a constant rather is tempered by distance². If the acceleration closes the elipse without hitting the (circular at this scale) ground, your object is now a satellite in orbit.
Keep accelerating and eventually (a whole lot of acceleration) and special relativity factors affect the trajectory...and mass...and time dilates between the object and observers.
Wasn't that rather a reference to the normal / gaussian distribution, that describes many phenomena so well?
I always thought the phrase was Aristotlean but it seems the internet asserts recent or unknown origins.