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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (518860)1/3/2004 2:25:55 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
So I'd suggest your analogy is flawed from the start.

Yes, but then all analogies are flawed in some respect. They are only representative in some respects, but usually not all respects. That's why we call it an analogy, as it usually illustrates some similarities. But it does not need to be an exact physical model, which in and of itself would be virtually impossible to create, in order to demonstrate commonalities.

For that matter, what a physical pendulum will do depends on matters you left unspecified such as air resistance and fiction. and the little matter of the presence or absence of a gravitational field or other field of force and the orientation og the pendulum with respect to it and the behavour of the pivot point.

The political pendulum is far more sensitive to changes in wind direction, than gravity, air resistance or friction. In fact the political pendulum has often been stalled out by a massive application of hot air.

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