Homeopathic dilutions, relativity and Isaac Newton
Question & info
How relate the views of Isaac Newton
to homeopathic dilutions and relativity
Often Isaac Newton is brought into discussions of physics, chemistry etc.
and used as argument against homeopathic dilutions while participants often don't know what Newton actually wrote. Let's make a
small tour into one of his subjects. Like Albert Einstein made a difference
between quantum mechanics and relativity, Isaac Newton knew in some way already
also the
difference.
These quantities I here consider as variable and indetermined, and
increasing or decreasing as it were by a perpetual motion or flux; and I
understand their momentaneous increments or decrements by the name of Moments;
so that the increments may be esteem'd as added, or affirmative moments; and
the decrements as subducted, or negative ones. But take care not to look upon
finite particles as such. Finite particles are not moments, but the very
quantities generated by the moments. We are to conceive them as the just
nascent principles of finite magnitudes. *
As is clear from Newton's quote, Newton knew that "decreasing" (or
increasing) any quantity would at some "moment" be an
"affirmative moment" (like relativity with no limit of the Avogadro
constant), while "finite particles" would have limitations, would be
subject to "nascent principles of finite magnitudes" (a principle
description of the Avogadro constant).
An homeopathic dilution is not subject to those "nascent principles of finite magnitudes",
but is an "variable" "quantity" at an "affirmative moment".
Dilution is "decreasing" of a "quantity" "as
it were" by (often) a "flux" of usually a fluid. The properties of
"particles" are
defined by their physical or "nascent principles", homeopathic
dilutions usually don't contain particles, but are also not meant to contain
those, they are "moments" of "decreasing"
"magnitudes".
It amazes me every time that education teaches some fundamental principles of
science from the founders of science while others are totally forgotten and
not implemented. This article shows light on an aspect of Isaac Newton's
principles in a context which is disregarded but show that Newton was a
thinker of even greater magnitude than visible through the spectacles of
mainstream science.
*Sir Isaac Newton, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Philosophiae
Naturalis Principia Mathematica)
Book Two. Translated by Andrew Motte (1729). LEMMA II
Context: Any quantities A, B, C. Homeopathic dilutions are no exception on these
quantities, when for example A is a dilution Ɵ-x if (Ɵ
> 0) , B is a
continued flux dilution of Ɵ-2x and C further diluted
with a flux with a magnitude of Ɵ-3x
, there remains a (relativistic) valuable triangle according to Newton's
calculations between A, B, C in whatever value Ɵ-Ƴx if (Ƴ
> 0)
