| 11. | Newton preferred to believe in absolute space even though it was experimentally undetectable according to his theory.
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| 12. | As we are all taught, in Newton's conception of mechanics there is absolute space and absolute time.
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| 13. | The first form is absolute spacing.
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| 14. | He also denied the existence of absolute space and time by saying in 1901 : " " 1.
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| 15. | In Newton's time the fixed stars were invoked as a reference frame, supposedly at rest relative to absolute space.
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| 16. | {{ quote | Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable.
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| 17. | As such, they were no more palatable than Newton's old idea of absolute space, which was equally invisible and arbitrary.
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| 18. | The concept of inertial frames of reference is no longer tied to either the fixed stars or to absolute space.
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| 19. | They supersede the Galilean transformation of Newtonian physics, which assumes an absolute space and time ( see Galilean relativity ).
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| 20. | The cosmos of Galileo consists of absolute space and time and the addition of velocities corresponds to composition of Galilean transformations.
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