Re: This about Newton's First Law


"sal" <pragmatist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:pan.2005.05.26.19.09.02.858636@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:19:05 +0000, Dirk Van de moortel wrote:
>
> >
> > "TomGee" <lvlus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1117120763.992495.206850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> It has become apparent that what Newton wrote about the first law of
> >> motion has been corrupted in its translation and thus misinterpretations
> >> of what he actually said have resulted in the strong belief that Newton
> >> said that in the absence of any forces acting upon it, an object will
> >> remain motionless or in constant motion in a straight line.
> >
> > Aristoteles also decided that men have more teeth than women.
>
> But isn't that true?
>
> I have 32 (I've counted them). All the women I know have fewer. (Or so
> they tell me -- I haven't counted them myself.)

Maybe they had too many sweets when they were young ;-)

>
> Go ahead, find a woman and ask her how many teeth she has. Chances are,
> if she's American and grew up the States, you'll find she has 28 (or even
> fewer).

But who lives in the States anyway?
So I just went ahead in Europe and checked the family and
asked the neigbours over the fence. Result:
Men: 28,29,30,31,32,30,26,12 (unsure could be 11!),24
Women: 28,32,32,31,30,29,30
Averages:
Men: 27
Women: 30
Corrected Averages (removed 1 low value and 1 high value):
Men: 28
Women: 30
No kidding.

>
> QED.

:-P

>
> (European women may have more teeth, on average -- I haven't looked into
> that particular question. Europeans may also have more tonsils than
> Americans, on average.)
>
> Oops I forgot to include any physics ... that's a violation of the Usenet
> Monster agreement. So I'd better stick some in, eh? Here's some:
>
> Of course it's "the math which speaks" -- in this day and age everybody
> knows Newtonian mechanics is wrong, in real-world terms, but the
> mathematical model it uses is still valuable for all kinds of things (like
> playing pool or sending a spacecraft to the moon or passing the physics AP
> test). So, the math is still valuable even though the physics is somewhat
> obsolete.

Nice to have you back - and with all your theeth - Bravo!

Dirk Vdm


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