Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Would intelligent aquatic creatures with opposable thumbs ever develop Newtonian mechanics?
By Thoreau
Well, would they?
I was talking to a guy who observed that misconceptions about physics persist because in a world full of friction, and where gravity is always dragging things down to the ground (where friction can then take hold of them) it’s not at all obvious that an object at rest will remain at [...]
