poprock wrote:Well that got confusing quickly. It’s Giordano Bruno, not Joseph. Joe Bruno was a US senator who got done for corruption.
SpaceGazelle wrote:
1. The the idea that you can't tell if you're going at a constant velocity on a boat/train/plane if you shut your eyes or put the blinds down. You can still throw balls straight up in the air and they'll come back to you, not behind you. In fact all the physics experiments still work.
Diluted Dante wrote:Ok, but what about PhysX? Why don't I need a card for that any more?
Lurch666 wrote:Just blew my mind. So if you have a moving object but nothing to measure it against it's not moving (relatively speaking)?
Lurch666 wrote:When I'm arguing with evolution deniers or flat earthers the thing they miss is that we didn't evolve to have the cognitive ability to understand this sort of unintuitive thinking. Just asserting something must be true because it appears to be true denies the brilliance of the people before us who figured this out. Your explanation of relative movement went against what I thought I knew but instead of arguing against the facts I accept that what I knew is wrong. Really enjoying this and thanks for taking the time to explain this.
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