Re: the constantly moving seat

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Suess 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> PaulS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> > It's obvious that the wheels will (adn should) stay stationary for
> > quite some time at the finish, but at the catch the time is so small
> > as to appear to be a quite instantaneous change of direction.  Like a
> > pendulum, we know it must stop and reverse, but the moment of
> > stillness is very short.
>
> "Infinitesimal", was the word I used, which mathematically describes what
> happens if a body is accelerating constantly. Not necessarily easy to
> achieve in a boat. But it's the suggestion of the "infinitesimal" time at
> backstops that has my bollocks detectors ringing out loud.
>
> Surprised His Eminence has chosen to sleep on this one!
Without rising to anything above (H.E. - who he?), I thought all this 
nonsense about what seat wheels should or shouldn't do was already put 
into proper (i.e. vastly distant) perspective by my waffle in the thread 
on "wheels at the catch".

You don't pull with the seat wheels; your bum is but distantly connected 
to the handle & the stretcher; & the wheels have a somewhat distant & 
elastic relationship to even your hip joint.  Next you'll be worrying 
your pretty little heads over the exact distance you're allowed to slide 
through the line of the pins.  BTW, how many angels did they say could 
stand on the head of a thole pin?

Turns over & goes back to sleep.

Carl
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