Re: Apples

Androcles wrote:

Barry wrote:


| 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.

| 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.


| 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?

| 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.

I want to be an apple.

And don't try to oppress me by telling me that I can't be one.

Barry

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