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posted : Wednesday, 14 November 2012
title : Critique Bullshit
I don't get it. Our task in mine is to keep in focus an invention by a famous inventor to integrate into the building of our house. Keyword invention. My inventor was Sir Isaac Newton. Question is did he invent gravity? No, he didn't. He himself did not create the force that causes downwards motion by objects. What he did create was the theory that states that "every object in the universe attracts every other object by a force which is directed along the centre for the two objects". Let's repeat that again. Every. Object. Attracts. Every. Other. Object. When you read that out, what comes to your mind? For some reason, what comes to my mind is a web of interconnections between objects. For other reasons, what comes to your minds are heavy objects suspended above ground. Would I therefore be right to say that your interpretation of the above statement is simply that oh skip what Newton's law actually is, his invention is the force dragging us down. Newton did speculate and invent a theory whereby the force (gravity) extends outwards into space and goes to show that the force does not only attract objects on earth, but every body in the universe as well. The farther away the object is, the weaker the force. From here he derived that the reason the moon revolves around the earth, and the planets around the sun is because they are constantly being attracted to the larger object at the same time the object is spinning away from them. Thus this creates a multitude of connections between different sets of objects (planets and sun, moons and planets) overlapping one another to form layers. To put it simply, if you draw a line from an object to show how it is attracted (by gravity) towards other objects, and you draw these lines for every object in the universe, you'll find yourself drawing and interweb of connections.
That is what Newton invented, the law, not the force of gravity. And there you guys are, telling me that connections are a concept of the law of gravity at all. Really? At least get your concepts right before shooting us down, that way you won't get angry, dissatisfied students. It's not as simple as theory of gravity=wow oh my god I never knew things fall downwards if I let them go from a height! O: it doesn't take Newton to discover that, genius. Next up, I already mentioned that my client is inspired by nature because the connections and interactions he sees happening in nature gives him ideas to increase the depth in his designs, to make them more meaningful, dimensional, and alive. Therefore he is also intrigued by Newton's theory of gravity because of how every particle in the universe is attracted to another in the theory, which inspires him to create connections from one part of his design to another, piecing everything up together. Does it make sense? Well to me it does. Now you're telling me to build my client's house based on your theory of gravity that everything falls downwards. Suspension. Heaviness. Compression. Tension. How the hell does this inspire my client? My client is a graphic designer not a nervous sumo in a tight tutu walking on a tightrope. How the hell will he be inspired by large heavy objects looming down from above into a 1m excavated living room! Yes sure it does show exactly the ideas of compression, tension and falling objects but Sir Isaac Newton did NOT invent that force. And LKK, your facial expressions, seriously, watch it. Maybe my client will be so stressed and upset he'll jump right off your big looming object to commit suicide. Now that shows the force of gravity now doesn't it? Inspiration. |