Answer to Question #111159 in Physics for Joshua Jerome C. Catindig

Question

A star ship enterprise NCC-1701 is traveling in deep space when all of a sudden its engine malfunctions and dies (Mutiny is in progress). It slows down steadily and stops to a location which is 69 light years from earth and will require another 69 light years to reach Alkaid of the constellation Ursa Major (where there is a space station for all star ship enterprises). The enterprise is now stranded in an empty space with no planets nearby. Travelling back in 1687, you ask Sir Isaac Newton to comment about this event. What will be his comment?

Answer 1

Isaac Newto would have been in a state of shock: the concept of a light year would have made it clear that he was not competent in the topic of dialogue, because these are already the foundations of relativistic mechanics, which began with Einstein. It is also worth digging in the direction that the classical mechanics of Newton works only within the framework of macro-objects, in contrast to the quat, which is about the micro-world, which appeared much later. Regarding planets and spaceships - the ships would certainly not fit in the head of Isaac.

In a word, Newton would consider such comments blasphemy and devilishness.