Re: The three essential quantities of mechanics

From: Donald G. Shead (dcshead_at_charter.net)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: 27 Jun 2004 16:42:49 -0700

"Robert J. Kolker" <robert_kolker@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<q0CDc.189085$Ly.706@attbi_s01>...
> Uncle Al wrote:
>
> > "Donald G. Shead" wrote:
> >
> >>Mechanics is the science concerning discrete portions - objects,
> >>bodies and masses - of material matter moving relative to eash other
> >>during time:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Dumb Donny shitHead eructates. Hey Dumb Donny shitHead, ever hear of
> > statics?
>
> The oldest branch of physics, invented by Archimedes of Syracusa. He
> also invented integral calculus 2000 years before Newton and Leibniz. If
> he had thought of the zero we would be traveling around in Star Ships
> instead of jet planes.
>
> Bob Kolker

You're stretching your imagination beyond its limit: Archimedes did do
a lot that eventually led to statics and the calculus, but is most
famous for discovering the buoyancy of water.

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