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Heiwa's bathroom scale experiment

bio said:
Is there a difference, between a block, which falls from above down on another block (WTC), and two blocks, which collide at a flate (cars, ships)?
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Yes. Gravity exerts much more force than either a car or ship's engine, and it doesn't stop like an engine, and it doesn't slip like tires on a road or a cavitating prop, and it applies its force EVERYWHERE on both objects and any parts that break free.
 
What's so bizarre is that his claim is shown to be untrue in the vid posted above http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zfTE4J87aQQ at 38.53 mins in they actually show the graph of the experiment and it clearly refutes Heiwa's claim.

Heiwa - have you watched that video? (relevant section 31-40 mins). If not you should because it proves doing your experiment that your conclusions are wrong. If you can admit the error then you'll atleast have gained back some dignity and respect. Can you do this?

If you have watched the video and still make your claim then it's upto you to physically carry out an experiement that shows otherwise.
 
Jonnyclueless said:
I wonder if working on those tankers involved setting up a pizza box demonstration for the clients.
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Of course! He just did the same silly experiment but turned everything horizontal instead.

I'm sure all the clients were thoroughly impressed. :rolleyes:
 
Sunstealer said:
What's so bizarre is that his claim is shown to be untrue in the vid posted above http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zfTE4J87aQQ at 38.53 mins in they actually show the graph of the experiment and it clearly refutes Heiwa's claim.

Heiwa - have you watched that video? (relevant section 31-40 mins). If not you should because it proves doing your experiment that your conclusions are wrong. If you can admit the error then you'll atleast have gained back some dignity and respect. Can you do this?

If you have watched the video and still make your claim then it's upto you to physically carry out an experiement that shows otherwise.
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Yes, I have seen it. The lecturer steps out into universe with a bottle of water and says he and the bottle are weightless!! I wonder where the weights went. Aha, they landed on the floor, bottle was caught by his hands and the legs dampened the impact.
But according Bazant lecturer and bottle should have become rigid and globally collapsed the floor and what's below it.
Actually, the lecturer confirms the bathroom scale experiment even if it was only a small drop or step into universe and nobody got hurt.
Just a fool believes Bazant after such a show.
 
Heiwa said:
Yes, I have seen it. The lecturer steps out into universe with a bottle of water and says he and the bottle are weightless!! I wonder where the weights went. Aha, they landed on the floor, bottle was caught by his hands and the legs dampened the impact.
But according Bazant lecturer and bottle should have become rigid and globally collapsed the floor and what's below it.
Actually, the lecturer confirms the bathroom scale experiment even if it was only a small drop or step into universe and nobody got hurt.
Just a fool believes Bazant after such a show.
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So you think that dropping a bottle of water a few feet should have the same effect as dropping a 10 story building 15 feet?
 
phunk said:
Yes. Gravity exerts much more force than either a car or ship's engine, and it doesn't stop like an engine, and it doesn't slip like tires on a road or a cavitating prop, and it applies its force EVERYWHERE on both objects and any parts that break free.
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Please - I defeat gravity every day on the tennis court with the forces I apply with brains (or what's left of it) + body (legs on court but sometimes I jump and hit the ball with luck) + arm + racket (only the racket can apply the final, killing force) = force applied on ball. Gravity is just one other force on that ball and game. There are plenty other forces on that ball. I am not perfect. Sometimes the net (another force) arrests the ball. Sometimes the wind. Sometimes whatever.

But none produces global collapses of the tennis court. Luckily.

Ever played tennis? Very civilized. You only hit a ball. If you hit anything else it is not tennis. Hitting the opponent with racket is not allowed (even if it JREF allows it in cyberspace).

I used to play ice hockey 45 years ago and it was not tennis. But gravity was also playing ice hockey and never collapsed anything. Only local failures.

This Bazant clown has his origins from a country of great ice hockey players. I wonder how he missed the gravity part. Causing global collapses of WTC towers?????
 
Stundies for the next year have been filled. Thanks Heiwa. I don't think I'll ever set foot on a ship again.
 
Heiwa said:
Yes, I have seen it. The lecturer steps out into universe with a bottle of water and says he and the bottle are weightless!! I wonder where the weights went. Aha, they landed on the floor, bottle was caught by his hands and the legs dampened the impact.
But according Bazant lecturer and bottle should have become rigid and globally collapsed the floor and what's below it.
Actually, the lecturer confirms the bathroom scale experiment even if it was only a small drop or step into universe and nobody got hurt.
Just a fool believes Bazant after such a show.
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Why is it so difficult to admit you made a complete fool of yourself in this thread and just walk away?

This is so ridiculous it is not even funny anymore. If you jump on the scales they indicate above your weight for a short time, even your small grandchildren could tell you this.

ETA - PS the FPSO stuff on your website is junk also.
 
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Lennart Hyland said:
He doesnt accept that velocity effects the force.
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:jaw-dropp

okay...

1) F=m.a
2) a=Δv/t
3) d=1/2Δv.t

Rearranging 3

4) t=2d/Δv

substituting 4 into 2

5) a=Δv2/2d

substituting 5 into 1

6) F=m.Δv2/2d

Now somone might want to check my work there, but to me that is saying that higher the change in velocity (Δv), then greater the Force (F) has to be when stopping stop the object in the same distance (d). How could anyone get past secondary school science without understanding that?
 
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