Re: Apples


"Barry" <Sirdry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Androcles wrote:
|
| > Barry wrote:
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|
| > | Physics has a lot to say about why and how apples fall from trees.
It's
| > | quite common to see apples drawn in physics texts - often on the
cover.
| > | Much importance seems to be attached to them.
|
| > Get a Dell or Compaq then.
|
| I tried that, but the book covers stayed put.

They would, nothing moves in spacetime including thought.

|
| > | But I haven't managed to find any physics texts that have much to say
| > | about why and how the apples climb trees in the first place.
|
| > | Can anybody give me a reference?
|
|
| > They don't climb, they fall back and come to rest on branches.
| > The Earth weighs 100 grams in the apple's gravitational field.
|
| A cycle, that's more or less what I was thinking.
Try Harley-Davidson. Yamaha are useless, there are 88 keys
to play to get a note out of them.

|
|
| > | It's been suggested to me, in private correspondence, that apples
| > | actually build trees for the specific purpose of falling from them.
|
| > You need to understand spacetime. Nothing expands, everything is
| > everywhere and everywhen. Physics is blind acceptance of believing
| > what you are told, do NOT think.
|
| Then will I become like an apple and understand?

You are not required to understand, you are required to believe.

| > | Frankly, I find that to be a ridiculous idea. Any suggestions as to
how
| > | I can refute it?
|
| > Yes. Get a brain implant.
|
| But I want infinite knowlege, power and wisdom. That doesn't seem to
| come from brains.

Insert brain in private correspondent's head. Then you'll have
infinite knowledge, power and wisdom, he/she knows how to spell "knowledge".

|
| I want to be an apple.

Go ahead. You won't need your brain, donate it to research.

|
| And don't try to oppress me by telling me that I can't be one.
|
If I operate a press you'd be scrumpy.


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