Isaac Newton is a physics icon, but he was wrong.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-12-13/time-to-stop-lying-to-our-children-about-physics/11789858
So parallel lines will always cross, because space is never flat.
Reality is governed by strange but precise statistical rules. Reality is … fuzzy.
“If you don’t like it,” he said, “go somewhere else … to another universe!”
But kids are still learning the old stuff in school. The Newtonian world view — the lies.
I believe that we owe it to our kids to stop the lies, and to teach them our best understanding of the universe.
Girls who normally start with a less positive attitude to science than boys, respond more strongly to our approach and come out equal with the boys.
Following our first trials, we have been funded for a five-year program in which we are developing an integrated school curriculum called Einstein-First.
Our goal is that university lecturers will never again have to say “forget all that stuff you learnt in school”. We want everybody to feel comfortable in the modern world where nearly everything is powered by Einstein’s physics.
Imagine a world without mobile phones, solar panels, cameras, nuclear reactors, black holes or gravitational waves. That’s the world we’re preparing our kids for. These things don’t exist in the Newtonian world we teach.
