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Apr. 9th, 2003 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexr_rwxI have a new favourite behaviour: nobody let me forget to do this...
I'm going to start proving things "by the converse error". This came up when Corey suggested that next time Marty and myself go running, I take him along by carrying him on my back. Marty suggested that this might make it harder to run with me, because things that are heavier (or at least cars that are heavier, apparently) go faster. I validated his suggestion by the following argument.
Things approaching the speed of light also approach infinite mass, which implies that the faster something's going, the heavier it gets. Therefore, By The Converse Error, the closer something gets to infinite mass, the closer its velocity must be to c.
There's a 5K coming up next week -- I'll have to bring Corey with me. Maybe I can eat some doughnuts between now and then...
Hrm... and before I sleep tonight (if I sleep tonight) I need to get that combinatorics test fixed up... so I might go hang out in the CoC. The sunrise coming up over East Campus from the deck between the CoC and the microelectronics building is lovely.
I'm going to start proving things "by the converse error". This came up when Corey suggested that next time Marty and myself go running, I take him along by carrying him on my back. Marty suggested that this might make it harder to run with me, because things that are heavier (or at least cars that are heavier, apparently) go faster. I validated his suggestion by the following argument.
Things approaching the speed of light also approach infinite mass, which implies that the faster something's going, the heavier it gets. Therefore, By The Converse Error, the closer something gets to infinite mass, the closer its velocity must be to c.
There's a 5K coming up next week -- I'll have to bring Corey with me. Maybe I can eat some doughnuts between now and then...
Hrm... and before I sleep tonight (if I sleep tonight) I need to get that combinatorics test fixed up... so I might go hang out in the CoC. The sunrise coming up over East Campus from the deck between the CoC and the microelectronics building is lovely.
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Date: 2003-04-09 12:10 am (UTC)So, if we're keeping up with the theme here, it's not you who should run, but Corey as he has more mass so he will go faster. This however leads us to a problem. Following your logic, the two of you will go faster, which will increase your mass. You've already shown that as your mass goes up so does your speed. Thus you will keep accelerating and gaining mass. This will continue on as you approach the speed of light and gain infinite mass.
Alex, you're going to destroy the universe! ;)