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Teen sets off buzz over 325-year-old physics

  A paper that claims to fill in a gap in Isaac Newton's formulas for the physics of falling objects has drawn worldwide attention to a 16-year-old in Germany, but physicists are reserving judgment until they've seen the proof. Full story

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16-year-old sets off buzz over 325-year-old physics

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A research paper that claims to fill in a gap in Isaac Newton's formulas for the physics of falling objects has drawn worldwide attention to a 16-year-old student in Germany, but physicists are reserving judgment until they've seen the proof.

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16-year-old sets off buzz over 325-year-old physics

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A research paper that claims to fill in a gap in Isaac Newton's formulas for the physics of falling objects has drawn worldwide attention to a 16-year-old student in Germany, but physicists are reserving judgment until they've seen the proof.


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