physics and intuition

just think of inertia as gravity

I couldn't answer the question with any confidence when I was thinking in terms of buoyancy and air movement, but there is a simpler solution: the inertia that objects experience within an accelerated reference frame is indistinguishable from gravity. When the car brakes it becomes an accelerated reference frame and everything in the car acts as if a new gravity component suddenly appeared in front of the car. This accelerates heavy things towards the front of the car, and things that are lighter than air will move towards the back.

 

rain and running

oops. Should have read all the links before I replied. One of those links talked about inertia and gravity...

Here is a puzzle that I had a practical interest in today. It is raining outside and I forgot my umbrella. Will I get wetter if I walk slowly so the rain is only hitting the top of my head or if I run for it so the rain is hitting the whole front of my body?

 

Velocity of the rain please... angle, windspeed, dropsize, bald head, hair, hat, coat.... etc etc! LOL you should know better than to ask 'broad questions' around here.

 

Can God make a rock so big that he himself can't lift it?

 

Well I tried once...

 

Define "God".

 

****** GOD Good Old Days
****** GOD Guaranteed Overnight Delivery
***** GOD Gathering Of Developers
***** GOD Game of Death (Bruce Lee film)
***** GOD Grow or Die
***** GOD Guard on Duty
**** GOD Gale of Darkness (gaming)
**** GOD Guardian of Darkness (game)
**** GOD Gates of Discord (EverQuest gaming)
**** GOD God Opens Doors (protestant and catholic ministries)
**** GOD Good Orderly Direction (AA higher power)
**** GOD Getting Off Drugs
**** GOD Great Out Doors
**** GOD Group Of Drunks (AA higher power)
*** GOD Gods of Destruction (gaming clan)
*** GoD Glory or Death
*** GOD Gemini Office Development
*** GOD Government of Democracy
*** GOD Gaining One's Definition
*** GOD Gift of Desperation (Alcoholics Anonymous)

 

Of course, that's too easy.

It would have infinite diminsions.

 

Countably infinite? Or uncountably?

 

He who has infinite power, so powerful in fact, that he is possibly more powerful than even his future self. This would imply that there is a limit to infinity, which is supposed to be impossible. However, an infinitely powerful God might still have a problem with a very heavy rock if he had created it himself, provided the rock was also epoxied to the ground.
That's the thing about epoxy, why it's so expensive.

 

I'm sure with small Rainolds number it's better to run.. or was it the opposite.. when it pours it's simplier to extrapolate directly by Fraude..

 

The spirit world is really cool.

I knew a Latvian guy who believed that if you looked really closely into a cat's ear when it was asleep, you could see a little ghost. I guess that's a bit like your big god and a big rock, only with a little ghost surrounded by a big cat. I really must learn more about god and stuff, it sounds really useful.

 

Physics and god ?

God and physics
A Winner team ?


Learning physics and spirituality, Nassim, has had the intuition that proton's behaviour was following Schwarzschild raduis.

Then, got the intuition that the proton doing so were creating a black hole.
Then using classic mechanic formulas, did the demonstration.


Is intuition coming from God or Work ?

A good politician would say, both.

PS
Same in French for my compatriot tired to read english

 

This sounds to me like a beginning of a new software project, called "Godlet"...

Infinitely powerful and precise, it will be the ultimate answer to all discussions about the range of applicability, validation, etc.

 

It could also be named "abduction" suite ;-)