Re: Up Hill or Down

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/10/00 7:32:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, dfletche@gte.net 
writes:

<< Sorry, Tom. This is basic physics. We aren't discussing the cutting edge of
 carbohydrates in endurance where research is incomplete. We are talking
 elementary mechanics. If you could establish that was bull, you would be
 guaranteed a Nobel prize in Physics. The Tivers version of
 Michaelson-Morley.>

Excellent. As a superior horseman and observer, you probably know how to 
operate a camera. Please show me these "elementary mechanics" in action. I'm 
not an existentialist who believes you can shape the world from an 
intellectual exercise. I'm a pragmatist. You've claimed this is so elementary 
that anyone with observatinoal powers of a child and horsemanship enough to 
avoid getting stepped on should have already come to your delusions. I'm 
willing to learn. Just show me a picture of a horse doing what you claim is 
possible. 

Anybody. Anywhere. Please prove the bridge builder right. Show me a horse 
trotting downhill with a level back.  
 
 >I should also point out (as did David) that all of this is statics. Dynamic
 calculations are a lot more complex (but well understood although the math
 can be overwhelming - nothing controversial here to physicists, except maybe
 the flat earth type).>

Don't need any calculations at all, although if this is just above the level 
of a flat earther, I'm disappointed you can't lay it all out, very clearly, 
without obfuscation of trade jargon. Just show me a picture of it being done. 
You're an expert observer and horseman--have your wife or girlfriend take a 
picture of you trotting downhill while the forelegs levitate the body to 
horizontal. Believe me, it will make the Smithsonian.

ti
 
 Duncan Fletcher >>


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