A piece of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree is set to defy gravity, the theory it inspired, by being carried into space on the next Nasa shuttle mission.

 

according to the BBC News.

Here's the original release from The Royal Society: http://royalsociety.org/Newtons-famous-apple-tree-to-experience-zero-gravity/

 

and it's also here: http://www.labnews.co.uk/laboratory_article.php/5456/2/2/zero-gravity-for-newton%E2%80%99s-tree

 

How ironic. Wonder what Newton would have made of it?

Stupid. Science has relics now.

 

BTW I thought Newton's apple was a myth.

the apple falling on his head is a myth. but he did say that the apple falling from the tree is what inspired him.

 

i'd hardly call it a relic. unless you call everything in a museum a relic as its really just a historical artefact.

It reminds me a relic. There is nothing important in it, nothing historic, it is just a piece of wood. Because Isaac saw it, (or had a thought about it) it became part of History? I find that completely, terribly, awfully, infinitely stupid.

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unless you call everything in a museum a relic as its really just a historical artefact.

 

That's a good subject for another thread.

well thats you're opinion then isn't it.

 

as it stands, the apple tree isn't part of science at all. it has bog all to do with any theory as laid down in the papers that discuss the actual science.

 

any attatchment to the apple tree is down to the fact that us humans (as a generalization) are sentimental. the attachment isn't scientific, merely emotional.

such an extraordinary part of scientific history and important element of the Royal Society's archive collection