Originally Posted By: finiter
Matter, space and time should be taken as independent factors - that is what our observations reveal.

Unfortunately both Special Relativity (SR) and General Relativity (GR), which have been very well tested, show that space and time are interrelated. So going back to a Newtonian framework would be extremely difficult. In fact SR and GR were developed because of problems with the Newtonian framework. For that matter Newtonian principles applied to a black body led to the Ultraviolet Catastrophe. There was no Ultraviolet Catastrophe, so something was wrong with classical Newtonian theories. Attempts to fix that prolbem led to Quantum Mechanics (QM).

So I'm afraid the classical Newtonian style just doesn't work.

Bill Gill

C is not the speed of light in a vacuum.
C is the universal speed limit.