Newton+v+Einstein+v+Thresher

The view of traditional scientists developed in the 1800s is called the **Mechanistic** or the **Newtonian** world view. Mechanism seeks to treat the whole of the world as the sum of the indivisible points of matter. Within the minds of these 19th century scientists, these were the atoms, (from the Greek //"atomos//," meaning indivisible); in modern physics, they would be the subatomic particles and quarks that make up atoms. Once one identifies these indivisible particles, one can identify their location. Once once can identify their locations, one can identify the geometric organization of these particles, which is supposed to explain the inherent properties of the larger matter the particles make up. The main difference between this view and that of Albert Einstein and the theory of Relativity is the manner in which the two treat gravity. Einstein's theories of relativity, (called **Special** and **General** relativity), explain the effects of gravity on the "fabric" of space and time woven together into spacetime. He suggests through his Einstein field equations that spacetime is curved and that it is because of its curvature that mass, energy, and momentum exist within it. This is contradictory to the mechanical view of gravity being the force exerted directly upon the object. I Relativity, gravity affects the curvature of space which guides and builds the momentum and potential energies of falling objects.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_mechanics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity