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4. It was easy to understand. True, that's also a possibility! Like you're swear to yourself: how simple is that, how I couldn't figure it out? But I think usually this 4. can also be a 2., once it is analysed on a deeper level. Like a spinning top standing up or a pendulum swinging looks childishl...

I always found it more than curious that B. could hardly not be aware of Newton's Laws ( 1687 ) - he mentions others of repute in his books - he writes the English word " force " in MT - he also writes in MT " motion " and " movement " - so he is familiar with the scie...

I hear you Gregory - one way is to work with the fundamental Laws of Motion and try to set one against another causing a selective stalemate or nulling that results in some unseen force imbalance advantage - to me, if that could be done, then that would invalidate those Laws of Motion and demote th...

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FWIW .. I believe Newton was a bona-fide polymath and genius - first publishing Principia in 1687 - this established the roots of Classical Mechanics as we know it, and was what took men in rockets to the moon and back, and satellites out into the solar system to visit other planets etc .. For me h...

Hi Fletcher! Right, I knew you enjoyed the cocktail, shaken, not stirred! :D Ok, we're on the same page more or less in all cases. I was also on the opinion that the swinger wheel should stop working or lose a lot of efficiency when put in this hypothetical mirrored/opposite setup. Still, it made me...

About heat transfer via internal stress in materials... There are moons of Jupiter and/or Saturn which heated up by the gravitational effects causing stretch/stress forces inside the body of such moon. This info is just popped into my mind at random. That's interesting, maybe my thinkering is not f...

Hey Gregory .. very interesting thought experiments - I do have some immediate thoughts and comments about them ( still refining, more coffee ) but will hold off relying in any detail for a couple of days if that's ok, or only take a quick shallow dive into the rabbit hole lol .. Right, take your t...

In many a sense Energy budgeting was what the sim-experiments were about wrt the horizontal swingers violating WEEP, and Noether symmetries, at the local level - where PE was gained ( Total Energy increased ) in a mechanical system ( Energy from the background ) which could then later be transforme...

Gregory .. to your previous - I hear yuh, and feel the pain - it can be exhausting research and more than tests the resilience, breaks help .. if energy can be made to just disappear ( usually to some background ) then it should be able to be made to appear ( also usually from some background ) - b...

I'm going to start building a new sim in the next few days that I've been thinking about - it is related to the bounce factor and Swingers OOB need to get a rapid acceleration - we'll see how it works out - like the A-Prime experiments you may have a more simple of better way to isolate and test it...

Actually, this is not just empty belief on my part. I could back it up with stuff. During my research I sim-made several different versions of ordinary closed system machines which (after given some initial kinetic energy) can lose energy continuously. Doing this action while there is no friction i...

The spinning top is a fascinating toy and can offer many metaphors. Lots of times I wanted to say a few things about this subject and the toys page, but always forgot it. 8] The most interesting type is the tippe top, and I think that's the one on the toys page. Now all the other toys, the hammerman...

Hi again Gregory .. I have a couple of thoughts to share on your sim and post - hope they make sense in the cold light of day .. Firstly .. I agree, your sim is a clever and well executed sim - as you say you used some clever back and forth manipulations ( transfers ) of an initial push into motion...

Hi Gregory .. wow, you put plenty of work and fine detail into building that sim - it looks complex to most but I think I get what you are trying to do - I did watch it stretch its legs more than a few times, and read over your descriptions and analysis as I went so I had a solid mind map of what I...