QF4- Charles Babbage FRS v Sir Isaac Newton FRS

[Jedi Shrimper]

Newton (unit of measurement)

Newton even has a unit of measurement named after him.

Newton
The absolute unit of force in the International System of Units (SI units). It is defined as that force necessary to provide a mass of one kilogram with an acceleration of one metre per second per second. One newton is equal to a force of 100,000 dynes in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system, or a force of about 0.2248 pound in the foot-pound-second (English, or customary) system. The newton was named for Sir Isaac Newton, whose second law of motion describes the changes that a force can produce in the motion of a body.
from Encyclopedia Britannica.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Newton's Grave in Westminster Abbey

 

[Napster]

Charles babage's grave. More austere.

 

[Cricko]

I don't think anything ever is or was "invented" hasn't is always been there and someone discovered it, or has something landed on Earth from another planet to alter this?

Babbage it is for me ..otherwise I would not be typing this..:)

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

Last time I checked trains & ships also need motion to er, move.

And computers use energy to run too, so do just as much damage.

next.

However Ships can be wind assisted, trains have a smaller carbon footprint, and computers can be driven by any Eco friendly method of providing electrickery you wish to use, whereas Planes are limited to what can be used to create their motion.

Anyway enough of this Green debate, vote for Babbage - as i do not need to go off and quote various websites to get my point across, just think if it was not for Babbage DS would not be able to do this.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Pink Floyd: Fans of Isaac?

Opticks is a book written by English physicist Isaac Newton that was released to the public in 1704. It is about optics and the refraction of light, and is considered one of the great works of science in history. Opticks was Newton's second major book on physical science.

The publication of Opticks represented a major contribution to science, different from but in some ways rivaling the Principia. Opticks is largely a record of experiments and the deductions made from them, covering a wide range of topics in what was later to be known as physical optics. That is, this work is not a geometric discussion of catoptrics or dioptrics, the traditional subjects of reflection of light by mirrors of different shapes and the exploration of how light is "bent" as it passes from one medium, such as air, into another, such as water or glass. Rather, the Opticks is a study of the nature of light and colour and the various phenomena of diffraction, which Newton called the "inflexion" of light.
In this book Newton sets forth in full his experiments, first reported in 1672, on dispersion, or the separation of light into a spectrum of its component colours. He shows how colours arise from selective absorption, reflection, or transmission of the various component parts of the incident light. His experiments on these subjects and on the problems of diffraction (which he never fully mastered) set the subject of optics on a new level.
Newton's contribution to prismatic dispersion was remarkable since he outlined qualitatively multiple-prism configurations. Multiple-prism arrays, as beam expanders, became central to the design of the tunable laser more than 275 years later thus encouraging the development of the multiple-prism dispersion theory. [wiki]

 

[Numphgirl]

Newton's Grave in Westminster Abbey

and given that my hero Darwin was buried in Westminster Abbey alongside Newton, Newton gets my vote

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

and given that my hero Dave was buried in Westminster Abbey alongside Newton, Newton gets my vote

**Cought Cough****

I am still alive!!

 

[number11]

Vote Babbage..... the man who enabled hardcore pornography to be readibly available to the masses!

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Vote Babbage..... the man who enabled hardcore pornography to be readibly available to the masses!

As I said before...

Charles Babbage DID NOT invent the internet!
The term ‘internet’ was first used in 1974 by a group of american scientists which was the culmination of work through the 50’s to the 70’s by American military and University institutions. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
Charles Babbage DID NOT invent porn!
The depiction of erotic acts have been around since man could hold tools to draw/carve with, but the concept of pornography didn’t arise until the passing of the Obscene Publications Act in 1857 in Victorian England.

What Charles Babbage DID invent was the first recognizable computer, The Difference Engine, the first programmable calculating machine.

Incorrect TBL invented the WWW not the internet, of course both needed Babbage to come into existence.

Yes of course Babbage's work was needed in order for the modern computer, internet etc to come into being BUT Babbage needed Newton & Liebniz's work on Calculus for his machine to be possible. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Well this is the last I can campaign, as I'm off work for 4 days on holiday so I won't find out the result until tuesday when I'm back. So I'd like to thank everyone who's voted for Isaac, and Bob (and others) for his campaigning on the behalf of Babbage it's been a great battle. I'll leave you with one last persuasion as to why I believe Newton should win...

To sum up, Isaac Newton is widely regarded as one of the most influential human beings of all time. His groundbreaking discoveries & theories are still in scientific & practical use today over 300 years since the publication of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Today scientists remain unwavering in their appreciation of and wonder at Newton's accomplishments. Chandrasekhar* says that while he can image how other important scientists throughout history might have thought and felt, he "cannot imagine being Newton."To try, he says, would be akin "to someone climbing a little hill and asking what it must be like to be on the top of Mt. Everest”.
Stefi Weisburd (1987) link

*Nobel-prize-winning astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar of the University of Chicago

 

[markw]

Incorrect TBL invented the WWW not the internet, of course both needed Babbage to come into existence.

the first form on 'internet' was invented by nicholas tesla

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

Oh well knew it was always going to be a tough one, as everyone has heard of Newton and he was a great scientist/mathematician.

I am pleased that Babbage got this far and I guess I may have not done him justice as I did not have much time to cut n paste sorry campaign on his behalf ;)

Good Luck DS in the next rounds.

 

[Napster]

Newton wins. SFs start on Monday