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11 Oct 2024 11:13:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Physical puzzle  
From: Warp
Date: 8 Jan 2008 01:56:38
Message: <47831ea6@news.povray.org>
pan <pan### [at] syixcom> wrote:
> Train wheels gripping track exponentially gets looser
> the greater the speed of the train. At c or near c the
> track will have to move almost the entire speed of the
> train; else the instability will overwhelm your system.

> ergo: the track and train muts be coupled, else you
> would be asking about trains and tracks on separate
> unique vectors. (Unpredictable vectors btw)

> unless of course your train wheels and track rails are
> made of unobtanium held together in the grip of
> stick-but-slick-enough-to-let-the-wheels-move goop.

> Think dentures under a lot of strain.

  I don't even understand what you are trying to say.

  But if the contact with the train and the track bothers you, then
assume maglev.

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                                                          - Warp


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