#162386 - 03/02/0807:19 AMRe: plane on conveyor belt
Paul H
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Oh I agree that the treadmill would never exist. Just was thinking out loud to myself about the myth when in the 70 page thread and posed my theory. If it was possible to make that treadmill and possible to give it as much power as I could fathom then my theory works out. Then Jeff pissed me off with his I am a god hear me roar this is physics I am smarter than you etc etc when I was not even really debating the original myth. So I decided to dive into it a bit for a bit more fun.
I am not really hung up on the wheels in the original myth. Maybe again if I had unlimited power to ramp that treadmill up to 10,000 miles per hour to try and make the wheels fail because I agree it wouldn't make the plane stop moving in the original or my side thoery it may make even a smaller plane's wheels fail but again not possible to even do that.