I frame no hypotheses about the cause of gravity: whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is a hypothesis

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• Ruling out every measurable cause because none explains all the variation, and putting an unmeasured one in their place, is not an explanation. LSLyman Stone20 Aug 2026
• A theory gets abandoned when the old explanation becomes visibly insufficient: special relativity made Newtonian gravity's action at a distance impossible, and that was the forcing function. MNMichael Nielsen7 Apr 2026
• "There is no empirical evidence against my position" is not an argument for it. DLDan Luu7 Nov 2014
• The properties of light should be proved by reason and experiments, not explained by hypotheses INIsaac Newtonc. 1704–1718
• The planets' present motions could not come from natural causes alone but were impressed by an intelligent agent INIsaac Newton10 Dec 1692

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