Emilie du Châtelet was an exceptionnal woman!!

She was fascinated by science, translated Newton into french, was Voltaire's mistress. She contested Newton (how dared she when Voltaire was pro-Newton !) and favored Leibnitz. This helped formulate Einstein's E=MC2 !

Liebniz disputed Newton’s view; “According to (Newton’s) doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion.” Leibniz proposed his ‘vis viva’, [living force], as the principle that conserved the energy of the universe. Nothing is lost; the world runs itself; causality and energy do not leave our world - a supreme being is not needed to replace them. For Leibnitz God might have been needed at the very beginning, but now we are alone.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed...Lavoisier also paved the way!

Ok, ok, I'm looking at a docu-fiction about Albert Einstein.

Raoul