{"id":1,"date":"2010-01-04T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T18:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2010-02-03T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:26:17","slug":"newtons-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/newtons-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Newton&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17\" title=\"Isaac Newton\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/IsaacNewton-1689-GodfreyKneller-225px-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/IsaacNewton-1689-GodfreyKneller-225px-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/IsaacNewton-1689-GodfreyKneller-225px.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s Issac Newton&#8217;s birthday, the man who discovered the simple\u00a0equations\u00a0that predict the forces of gravity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton's_law_of_universal_gravitation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11\" title=\"Newton's Law of Gravity\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/newtonslawofgravity.png\" alt=\"Newton's Law of Gravity\" width=\"109\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This simple\u00a0equation\u00a0is at the heart of Universe Sandbox. It&#8217;s what makes it all work.<\/p>\n<p>And while his beautiful\u00a0equation\u00a0doesn&#8217;t work when you get really small or really big, it&#8217;s &#8220;adequate over an enormous range of masses of objects from about 10<sup>\u221223<\/sup> to 10<sup>30<\/sup> kg.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_gravity\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how something so simple can explain so much.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday Issac.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0comparison: Earth&#8217;s mass about 6 \u00d7\u00a010<sup>24<\/sup> and the Sun&#8217;s mass is about 2 \u00d710<sup>30<\/sup> .<\/p>\n<p>More about Newton<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about Gravity<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton's_law_of_universal_gravitation\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton&#8217;s_law_of_universal_gravitation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Issac Newton&#8217;s birthday, the man who discovered the simple\u00a0equations\u00a0that predict the forces of gravity. This simple\u00a0equation\u00a0is at the heart of Universe Sandbox. It&#8217;s what makes it all work. And while his beautiful\u00a0equation\u00a0doesn&#8217;t work when you get really small or really big, it&#8217;s &#8220;adequate over an enormous range of masses of objects from about 10\u221223 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}