2 physics riddles
We take so much for granted.
Try to solve these two riddles on your own:
- How can one prove the earth is round?
- How can one prove the earth revolves around its axis, and around the sun?
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Ofer Egozi:
Yes, this is fun. I’m looking forward to the day my kids are old enough to come up with their own genius ideas.
9/7/09, 21:45Problem with many of answers in the links is that they take some other axioms for granted. It really depends who you’re trying to convince. A Foucault pendulum, for example, can easily be explained with a bunch of witchcraft and ghosts stories, rather than earth rotation…
ripper234:
I’d use Occam’s Razor to choose between the two explanations. Sure, it won’t work on all people equally – some would argue witchcraft is a simpler explanation, or “God move the pendulum in order to fool you”.
You can’t forcibly convince people that don’t want to be convinced.
10/7/09, 9:08