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		plf on June 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Depressives Surf the Web I'm curious, did Newton name Newton's law himself or did other people do that for him? Did Gantt name his diagrams? Isn't it a bit vain to name a law with your own name?

kaybe on June 16, 2012 [–]

At the very least, it will earn you 20 points on the crackpot index: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

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