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Also please try to remember that I am playing devil's advocate here (as stated in my first post in this thread)
I think Paul is trying to say that Newtonian physics are an approximation in the same way that 3.14 is an approximation of pi for small differences in velocity. Do we need to carry out pi to the millionth decimal place to approximate the volume of a sphere? No, 3.14 will work just fine. There are times when we do need precision, and then special/general relativity becomes important.
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