My September 11 Thoughts

[running_coach]

You guys must have missed** psikey’s** paper loops.
From this thread. Starts with post 178. (quoted)

@psikeyhackr

I never said anything about explosions controlled or otherwise.

I already made a better model than the one with toothpicks. The toothpicks were too strong in relation to the mass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caATBZEKL4c

The laws of physics don’t give a damn about papers and peer reviews but grade school kids can build models and test them. is Newtonian physics to difficult for grade school kids that may now have $300 netbooks?

But the falling portion of my model that arrested did not remain intact. The bottom was crushed like the top of the stationary portion which makes perfect sense according to Newton’s 3rd Law. Crushing the paper loops requires energy and the onlysource is the kinetic energy of the falling mass. So it slows down. Bazant is talking nonsense. So how has he been allowed to talk nonsense for so long?

psik