>> ^Peroxide:

"It" doesn't "get" any information...


I found this really damn irritating, too. Why must so many physics explanations ascribe will/consciousness to the objects in question? It comes off as condescending to me, like the physicist feels as though he's talking to a child.

Depends what you mean by information.

>> ^Peroxide:

"It" doesn't "get" any information...

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I'm thinking the bottom of the slinky hits the ground in the same time after dropping as it would if it was not attached to a spring, or if it were the bottom of a rigid object of the same weight and aerodynamics dropped at the same time.

The bottom ring is motionless until the compression wave hits it, then it accelerates faster than gravity to the average -V of the wave. They should do a video showing it next to a rigid object.

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>> ^BoneRemake:

Hrmmm. Snap eh...
This guy got XXX off of the Americas got talent show I am certain of it.


I saw that too. http://videosift.com/video/Human-Slinky-on-Americas-Got-Talent for it. I liked it. It wasn't great.

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The stuff I've read seems to implicate this guy as an attention seeker. That doesn't exonerate Brad Manning. Also, as slinky and weasel-like as this guy seems, the mob doesn't strike me as morally superior in this case.

I came here to see the pressure wave on a rump, as a result of a moving object hitting it.

You see. The Riding Crop is moved at an arc towards the target area, at a variable speed controlled by the swinging mechanism. In this case, the Dom. When the Riding Crop makes contact with the rump, resulting in a compression* wave is a marvel to be seen only in slow motion.

Note @cybrbeast observation that the compression wave, caused by Crop impact, is intense at first until the the end when the wave loses it's intensity and dies. Think of it like taking a slinky, placing it on a flat surface lengthwise, and then compressing one end to the other. You can see the wave pulse through the slinky causing each end to bounce as the wave moves from one end to the other.

All of this takes place quicker than the eye can see. Therefore, this was a scientific exhibition of the resulting dynamics of Riding Crop vs a nice rump.

Science can oft be seen as Art.

Edit: After further review, maybe it's not a compression wave. It's more like a spherical transverse wave. Like the wave seen when someone drops a pebble into a pond.


You know what? I can't tell whether it's a spherical transverse wave, or a mixture of both transverse and longitudinal. I guess I'll have to watch it again.