Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Good Times

Boring! How can Newton’s Second Law of Motion be boring! It is by far one of the world’s greatest achievements. I am placing that in high regard, along with the wedge, screw, wheel and fire just to name a few other great achievements. It is in this complex worded but yet simple equation that so many other formulas are derived from.

F=MA

Let’s say I was to pick up a baseball and throw it at your head. You would take the mass of the ball and the speed at which I throw it, and then after you wake up from the concussion, we can determine the force of the ball. Now just for fun lets make my throw on an arc, we know have to play with the forces being acted on the ball to determine the net acceleration, it’s a two part problem and from one question! How awesome is that?

Others will say something weak and how it does not affect them in the slightest, but it affects everyday life, it is the equivalent of saying that breathing is not important. I just want your feeling on the matter, and to hear such comments as boring or unimportant is a jab at science. Science makes your life better because it’s there to help you and make you do more with less. If this task or challenge is unimportant to you then don’t drive or lift anything, don’t push or pull, don’t live life to its fullest. These are my “feelings” on this matter, agree or disagree, just remember that if you’re not with me, you’re a dervish.

These rules of motion are much like the rules of the blog. They are needed to stop all chaos from breaking loose. The second rule being the most important of them, but it is not to make the others unimportant, read up on them and study them. Know them by heart and memory. I am thinking that the next challenge that I propose will be to describe in five sentences or more, Bernoulli's Theorem. What do you all think? Everyone wants to write and be smart by using correct grammar, but what is the point if you can not explain simple theories while still using correct grammar? You want me to get better at writing, I want others to get better at Physics, understand that it is not how much you can write or how you write, but what you write. If I want to sound smart I’d say something like this, “Ego sum rex Romanus et super grammaticam” ("I am king of the Romans and above grammar") I don’t go off doing that but I should. So write your post and feelings but remember, it is the law of the universe that govern us, made up by God for us, so use them and know them. I hope I haven’t made any grammatical errors in this post but if there are, Ego sum rex et super grammaticam.

Good evening and good night.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hope you brought a snack, so take that and take it to the bank!

Anonymous said...

Impressive. Although your last sentence was redundant.

And I am vetoing the Bernoulli challenge RIGHT NOW.

Anonymous said...

Let's wait till there are no more challenges lined up before issuing anymore, shall we? No need to book every week with a challenge, or else we might need to amend the rules, again.
Grammar=physics in importance. Bad grammar distorts the meaning of what you write and thus weakens your ability to communicate such important truths like physics.
Also, you asked us to tell you what we thought about the 2nd law, so please don't get offended if we don't like it. If our responses bother you, don't ask for them next time.

Anonymous said...

Well done Bill!

Just to add to the list of great achievements, your maternal great grandmother always said that the one invention that had the single biggest impact on her life was the electric iron. (Although she she did have a an appreciation for the force that could be genarated from a well thrown flat iron.)