Sunday, November 30, 2008

The illogical Physics

Physics own the world. Whatever we do in our everyday life is an expression of Physical relations. For example, lets say you fall off your bike. If you were to put physics into this context, then you would understand that it is because of the centripetal force and your weight producing a torque on the bike.

Most of us would realize that the world around us is of complete common sense and logic. Lets say we have a scenario where a person opens a door and walks through it. This is probably the thought process going on in this persons brain.

1)I see the door, it is closed. I can't walk through the door.
2) What should I do? I must open the door to walk through it
3)If I touch the door knob, i can pull the door open
4) Yay! I got through the door:)

The above process may seem obviously 'duh' to the average joe on the street. However, lets examine the above closely. We will discover many assumptions made and perhaps realize that PHYSICS IS ILLOGICAL.

Lets examine point number 1 first. Whats wrong with it? It seems so common sense yeah? Not so. When the person sees the door, he ASSUMES that he cannot walk through the door. Thats the crux. What in the universe makes him think that he will not be able to walk through the door? Is it not possible that a body of mass can go through another body of mass? Here, we are asumming that one body of mass cannot go through another body of mass! This is where perhaps, a certarn 'law' of physics come into play. This 'law' states that one body of mass cannot go through another body of mass. ( I will explain why I put the ' ' later)

Ok now lets examine point number 3. In point 3 the person thinks that by touching the door knob, he will be able to increase the velocity of the door and in so doing shift the door away. The assumption here is that by producing a force on the door, the door will experience acceleration. Of course we know that this is true by the equation Fnetxt=mxchange in v.But the person takes it for granted. He thinks that this is logic. Common sense.

The point that I am driving here is that whatever we deem as 'logic' or 'common sense' is actually governed by a physical law or by a logical derivation of that physical law. Going back to point 1, the reason why i put that ' ' is because the 'law' is actually a logical derivation of perhaps, the law of quantem mechanics.

Chows!
Jethro Low

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