This probably explains why Wiley E. Coyote does not fall when he runs off a cliff, until he looks down. As Einstein explained, his movement is relative to his observation. To Wiley, the earth is approaching him, and he is standing still. This phenomenon is known as the Lorentz contraction of space or brownian movement. If you divide Avogadro's number by planck's constant and take the square root of the integral of De Morgan's postulate, it follows that the amount of beer it takes the fill the Hoover resevoir will be consumed by the afternoon shift of the Milwaukee Pabst factory on even numbered fridays.
Galileo, Maxwell, Fourier, Heavyside, and Faraday are the engineer's scientists. The pure science boys like Newton, Leibniz and Al Onejug(Eine-stein).
I think Galileo's observations about friction, interia, and falling bodies were as profound as any.
Gravity is tricky. Its force is proportional to the two masses, yet the acceleration is equal for any two bodies.
If F did not = Mass*Accel., this would not be true. The greater mass creates a greater force, that cannot if the force is as the mass, be greater per unit mass, for any body.
All of Newton's laws of motion can be derived from Galileo, including the second law. What Galileo said was to consider a ball rolling down a hill and up another. It very near gets back to the same height demonstrating that the energy it gains in descending is almost equal to what is expended lifting it. The only thing that can impede its ascent is friction. If one make the hill it ascends longer and more shallow of slope, and just about friction free, it follows that the ball will roll very far indeed to ascend to the same height. Thus, if the ball/slope was totally friction free, and the angle of the hill infinitely small, the ball would roll forever. This demonstrates the law of continuing motion, where nothing interferes with that motion.
Hope I am not Bohring you. Atoms it feels like it. Heisenberg. Heisenberg. Excuse me. Gaussundheit. I have to Moseley on now.
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