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I can't see why. I don't know enough about physics to give a concrete example, but consider whatever observations have led physicists to conclude that Newton was wrong. These observations could all be illusory or otherwise misleading. For example, the being might manipulate our sense organs or the laboratory environment, or he might tamper with our equipment so it produces inaccurate images or readings. Is that hard to imagine?
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I understand the general idea your trying to convey about being mistaken or misled about what we are seeing. My problem is in trying to imagine the more specific example you gave of a world that appears to behave in an anti-Newtonian way but in actuality follows Newtonian laws.
I could write an entire essay on things I can imagine and how they don't make sense and still not fully exhaust all the possibilities, so I would rather leave it to you to give a coherent example of this hypothetical world. But just to give you some idea of why I can't imagine such a world, think about the many technologies, medicines and materials that people would be deceived into thinking are real.
For instance, using theory 1 we can make medicines for terminal diseases. According to theory 2 this would just be an illusion and the patient would die. How does this being give the illusion that the medicine worked? If the being steps in and saves the patients life, then taking the medicine actually did save the patient. Indirectly perhaps but the end effect is the same. On the other hand, if the patient actually dies but somehow the being can deceive the patient into think he is still alive how would this work? I can't think of any way to solve this that doesn't introduce more problems than the one it solves.
More complicated situations to explain away arise where people would die due to things not behaving as expected such as planes that would crash or bridges that would fall because the materials people thought they were using to make them didn't actually exist. Moreover, how do people drive over bridges that fell down long ago and now only exist in their heads or board planes that crashed long ago.
The whole idea starts to sound like the Matrix, to me at least. I gave it my best shot but perhaps I just lack the imagination. I don't see how the world could both contain a powerful being bent on deception, obey Newton's laws and appear as it does.