Jeroen Pietryga

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Classical mechanics says that the world is made of things with definite, measurable values, obeying deterministic equations of motion; it stands in contrast with quantum mechanics. Newtonian mechanics adds specific ideas about absolute space and time. It stands in contrast with “relativistic” mechanics, which is classical but not Newtonian, and in which space and time become unified.
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
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