Post by Pincho Paxton on Mar 18, 2024 8:34:45 GMT
Chains Push
I often tell you that there's no such thing as a pull force, and that the word 'pull' is only really useful in a conversation in the English language... pull doesn't exist at all in reality.
Well one of the examples that I like to use is the example of the chain...
If you look closely all the links of a chain push each other from the back, but we say that chains pull things towards us. Ok so 'towards us' is useful in the English language, but milk is sucked towards us through a straw, and it is pushed at the back by air.
So all observable situations are that everything is moved from the back towards the front due to the area of least resistance. A fly splatters on your windscreen sideways, because that is the area of least resistance. We hit the ground, and splatter because mass is resistant to mass. Gravity moves into the Earth because it fits inside those holes, and gravity moves into a bar magnet because it is scaled down to fit into even smaller holes. The iron filings are moved towards the magnet from the back towards holes at the front.
In physics therefore you just repeat that things are always moved from a force at the back into their areas of least resistance at the front... time has an arrow.. yes because everything is moved from the back towards the front.
But anyway the chain is a really good thing to look closely at.
Pincho Paxton
I often tell you that there's no such thing as a pull force, and that the word 'pull' is only really useful in a conversation in the English language... pull doesn't exist at all in reality.
Well one of the examples that I like to use is the example of the chain...
If you look closely all the links of a chain push each other from the back, but we say that chains pull things towards us. Ok so 'towards us' is useful in the English language, but milk is sucked towards us through a straw, and it is pushed at the back by air.
So all observable situations are that everything is moved from the back towards the front due to the area of least resistance. A fly splatters on your windscreen sideways, because that is the area of least resistance. We hit the ground, and splatter because mass is resistant to mass. Gravity moves into the Earth because it fits inside those holes, and gravity moves into a bar magnet because it is scaled down to fit into even smaller holes. The iron filings are moved towards the magnet from the back towards holes at the front.
In physics therefore you just repeat that things are always moved from a force at the back into their areas of least resistance at the front... time has an arrow.. yes because everything is moved from the back towards the front.
But anyway the chain is a really good thing to look closely at.
Pincho Paxton