It’s not unless. It’s until, which has more implications.

TBF, that’s actually a pretty profound insight.

Most, if not all, of us take certain concepts for granted until someone points out that it’s more complex than we realise. Examples like Dark Energy & Matter, entropy, the placebo effect, the nature of mathematical objects, etc. are proof of this.

That’s not Newton’s contribution. Aristotle already said that an object only moves if a force acts upon it.

Gödel: “Using logic ive shown that there will always be true statements can not be proven/falsifiable within any formal system of logic”

Mathematicians:

In fairness, at the time, many Europeans believed in faries and other creatures, including these guys:

https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/720095/view/mythical-horned-beasts-17th-century

“Your Grace, he has sinned against the church!”

This actually wasn’t obvious at all. If I let go of an apple in midair, it falls. Why? Nothing appeared to be acting on it. The “common sense” explanation is that things naturally fall. Their “default” action is to move toward the earth. That’s why there are explanations from ancient myths about the sun and stars being “hung” in the sky. Cause otherwise, they would fall to earth too, right? Everything does.

What Newton did was to show that there is a force acting on the apple, and without that force, it wouldn’t move. He also came up with an equation that could predict what that force would be between any two objects at any distance, and what motion or lack of motion would result from that force.

Can someone put this guy next to monkey Jesus?

Yeah, it really feels like every toddler figures this out for themselves. He just said it succinctly.

its like how the idea of putting one number in front of another for a tens or hundreds figure seems so obvious but took forever to invent