Posted by
Nick Thompson on
Apr 20, 2013; 4:34pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/How-do-forces-work-tp7582853p7582884.html
Steve,
I you are going to destroy an entire morning of mine by tempting me to go to
the XKCD website, I am going to return the favor.
http://xkcd.com/1162/-----Original Message-----
From: Friam [mailto:
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Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 9:38 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How do forces work?
Too bad we don't have Bruce and Ruth here to jury this sideshow, but still!
I was always disturbed by the "rubber sheet" description of Gravitational
Forces.
In the spirit of circular logic, I was always left wondering when the models
of say the sun and a planet or two were set down onto the "rubber sheet" to
show how their masses distort the "fabric of time and space", the question
always popped up for me... "just what pulls those massive objects down to
distort the rubber sheet? Gravity?"
Everything you need to know about "Life, the Universe and Everything"
can be found in XKCD. I think Randall Munroe has been listening to our
conversations here and making fun of us behind our backs!
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