Hello everyone, and my senior paper

Welcome to evcforum. Most physicists have not read Newton's works.History might be important to you and to what interests you. But it is not important to science. Unlike theology and philosophy, science is evidence-based, not tradition based.I'm not a biologist. But, it is my impression based on what biologists write, that biologists are far more likely to have read Darwin's works than physicists are to have read Newton's works. But they read it, not because it is important to their science, but because biologists are affected by culture wars, particularly the attacks on Darwinism.

Oh, I have studied it because I find it interesting. But it does not help at all with the science. No, they don't. The similarity that you see is mainly superficial.