Newtonian
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Unlike Babson, who said he used Newtonian physics to divine the direction of the market, there’s real market logic behind Burry’s latest call.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Monjo’s theory helps unify scientific concepts of Newtonian gravity with our knowledge of electromagnetism.
From Salon • Nov. 13, 2024
The researchers also showed that when the capsules are spherical, the metafluid behaves like a Newtonian fluid, meaning its viscosity only changes in response to temperature.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2024
One suggestion is modified Newtonian dynamics, or MOND.
From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023
In recent years the even smaller deviations of the orbits of the other planets from the Newtonian predictions have been measured by radar and found to agree with the predictions of general relativity.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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