On 7 Dec, 12:24, Roy Lewallen wrote:
Keith Dysart wrote:

Sounds good, but mostly you do not examine
ideal conditions because they tend to show that
the models fail. With non-ideal conditions, the
discussion is easy to drive far from the target
and prevent resolution of whether the model
works.

My postulate is that Newton was wrong: moving objects come to a rest
without any external applied force. Every observation made supports
this. There's no need to consider what happens in a frictionless
environment, since such a thing doesn't exist.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL


Wrong.. When you are beyond the confines of all gravitational fields
and in a state of equilibrium then there can not be friction.
Somebody somewhere has obviously postulated that gravitational
forces are every where which puts science back in the stone
ages.
Sure messes up Gauss and quite a few others. In fact the law
of
statics is based on gravitational field which extends to what
Gauss called the limits of gravitational effects.
Quite a few other laws are based on similar logic

Art Unwin KB9MZ.....XG(uk)