I came here with kind of a question, and this seems about as good a place to post it as any. I've been thinking about how to visualize multiple...
Everything we encounter has a cause. If, with any frequency, we experienced things without a cause, it wouldn't seem foreign to us that "things...
What I'm struggling with is getting away from the idea that moving at a particular speed is a state of constant propulsion. If you launch a...
But doesn't relativity overturn that, and say that velocity isn't really in the object? I would think that once I stop accelerating, I have no...
What I was thinking was that you wouldn't even be said to be moving 1.2c. That once all forces stopped acting on you, there's no saying which bodies...
I have two questions, both based on my lack of understanding for what happens to others as you approach the speed of light. My scenario is a ship...
The other thing I don't get is, based on James Clerk's ideas, the notion that inertia should require explaination seems to pre-suppose that the...
Uh, no. I haven't come any where close. I'm a normal person trying to relate to these concepts. I don't know about rate of change of time. I...
I don't get this. I would think that it was resistance to acceleration, rather than resistance to a changing rate of acceleration. Any acceleration...
But I think this is pretty close to what I said. Inertia is a state of neither accelerating nor decelerating, each of which require force. I'm...
Because the word is defined to mean "at least one more than half". There isn't a math rule that defines majority any differently.
Majority explicitly means more than 50%. If no group is over 50%, there is no majority. The biggest of all groups is a plurality.
I think it’s confusing to talk about traveling at the speed of light. There is a constraint. You can’t accelerate to the speed of light. But...
So I'd say inertia is "In the relative motion between two objects, one of the objects needs to be acted on for the relative motion to change."
I'm just making this up off the top of my head, but I'd ask what motion even means once you act on an object. You push it to a point. You stop...
I would say inertia is a function of relativity. Based on my layman's understanding, relativity says that for any two objects in motion relative to...
The concept of "the limit represents a real value" is validated by assuming repeating decimals are valid expressions of rational numbers. This is...
To follow - yes, if you could break an area into an infinite number of pieces, the sum of the area of those pieces would equal the actual area under...
The calculus argument is the worst for me. Calculus is something you teach 18 year olds, and that's where I think the most confusion comes from....
To complete this point - once you accept that repeating decimals are valid expressions of rational numbers, .9r = 1 is fixed as a feature. It is no...
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