Does physics refuse to function for anyone else?

Post Reply New Topic

In tonight's episode of FML, I take a recipe that is sufficiently fluid, add fluid to it, and it is impossibly stiff.

Its must be a coincidence.

Your broth turned solid for some other reason. The fact that you added water (or some other liquid) was not the cause.

There are materials that solidify when you add water.
Like gypsum.

It's chemistry rather than physics.

Can you do it again? Plastics have been discovered by accident.

My hair doesn't do what everyone else's hair does. It likes to hang heavy and thick, even if I try to style it at the hair salon, it still wants to hang heavy and thick.

Mostly I'm just whining, but the post is inspired by a real-world problem I have. So often I am frustrated by things that mystify me how they are even possible. I won't bother illustrating, because as you see here, there are literalists that will make me exhaustively explain every possibility, no matter how remote, rather than just commiserating, "yeah, that sounds pretty frustrating."

“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.“ — Attributed to Earnest Rutherford (1871-1937)

I was going to post a video I saw few months ago on YouTube, but now I cant find the darn video.

A guy who does little docs about naval warship history did a chapter about the Japanese navy in the 1920s. The chapter was entitled "When Japan Went to War With Archimedes" (the ancient Greek philosopher who essentially invented physics). The Utuber voices that "The whole nation of Japan went to war with Archimedes, and it wasnt a fair fight. A nation of several tens of millions of a people, and with a legendary fighting spirit...against one old Greek dude who had already been dead for two thousand years. But Archimedes won."

He then explains how the Japanese navy would stick two many guns onto their then latest destroyers and cruisers, make them topheavy, and then put them on trial cruises -and then how (surprise surprise) the ships would flip over and capsize.

I was gonna post it to show how...you succeeded where the whole nation of Japan failed! In defeating Archimedes!

Without even trying!

Oh well.

^^ The Swedes lost the Vasa on her maiden voyage, for neglecting to close the lower gun ports. The British lost their latest and greatest battleship, the Captain, by building her top-heavy when they were first trying rotating gun mounts. Her design and construction were the subject of many long, heated debates in Parliament, but those who understood Archimedes lost. More recently, British Columbia had to scrap their year-old "fastcat" ferries when, as predicted, they had to cancel 10% of their sailings due to weather, because they had been built too narrow in order to fit the existing monohull docks. I keep campaigning to get marine architects to use the right formula for propeller calculations, which would give 20% better mileage, but also get ignored. I could go on, and on, and on.

From the field of electronics :
"Amplifiers oscillate and oscillators wont"