| Momentum 17:57 - Oct 14 with 775 views | Meadowlark |
"..is really hard to get and easy to lose" says McKenna, but surely he's demonstrating a lack of basic physics knowledge! The thing about momentum is that it is hard to get AND hard to lose. That's why flywheels are used. They preserve the angular momentum of a rotating shaft and like oil tankers, also with huge momentum, are very difficult to stop.
I like the momentum analogy, but he's used it incorrectly!
We are going to be difficult to stop. |  | | |  |
| Momentum on 18:18 - Oct 14 with 722 views | catch74 |
Are you saying Lambert defied physics? |  |
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| Momentum on 18:31 - Oct 14 with 711 views | Churchman |
Surely with a tanker, all you have to do is bung a little anchor off the back and you’ll stop immediately, slapping the Captain’s face against the Bridge windscreen in full ACME cartoon style?
I failed physics O Level. I was robbed. |  | | |
| Momentum on 18:55 - Oct 14 with 677 views | HighgateBlue |
He seems to be saying that it's hard to maintain very good form for a long period of time. Which seems to me to cast doubt on the idea that footballing form can be characterised as momentum at all. As you say, if it were really like momentum, it would be hard to lose once one had acquired it. So it seems to me that the consequence of what he's saying is that he doesn't really believe in true momentum as an appropriate analogy. |  | | |
| Momentum on 19:00 - Oct 14 with 669 views | PhilTWTD |
Quite easy to lose if you clatter into a massive iceberg. |  | | |
| Momentum on 19:14 - Oct 14 with 651 views | BrianTablet |
| Momentum on 19:00 - Oct 14 by PhilTWTD |
Quite easy to lose if you clatter into a massive iceberg. |
Lettuce hope that doesn't happen. |  |
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| Momentum on 19:18 - Oct 14 with 638 views | clive_baker |
| Momentum on 19:14 - Oct 14 by BrianTablet |
Lettuce hope that doesn't happen. |
It would still last longer that Liz Truss innit |  |
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