Big hypothetical question. Context: I'm in an Internet argument with someone who won't take my word for the physics; he challenged me to find someone else who would say the same thing.
Question: Do these observations violate the axioms of Newtonian physics? If so, which ones?
No mention of chaos or of quantum mechanics, please: We're assuming perfect control of all variables to avoid the first one, and just handwaving away the second one.
It shouldn't be necessary, but please state your credentials.
There have been recent discussions on determinism in Newtonian/classical mechanics within the philosophy of science literature. See, e.g.:
Norton, John D. 2008. “The Dome: An Unexpectedly Simple Failure of Determinism.” Philosophy of Science 75:786–98. doi:10.1086/594524
...Newton’s equations of motion tell us that a mass at rest at the apex of a dome with the shape specified here can spontaneously move. It has been suggested that this indeterminism should be discounted since it draws on an incomplete rendering of Newtonian physics, or it is “unphysical,” or
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.