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    Can we 'feel' magnitudes of distant forces?

    Some say that our body can 'feel' only contact forces, I want to confirm it. Suppose I am placed between two Earth's so that their gravitational forces on me are equal and opposite. Do I feel any 'pull' - as in tug of war the rope would feel if it had sensations? If Earth's are replaced by...
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    Implications of Imaginary Numbers?

    I haven't gone through all the posts but it might not be much irrelevant if I digress to elementary mathematics: If (-1)*(-1)=(-1) then there won't be any need for complex numbers. Then what to do with existing, useful 'complex' maths? Follow the link...
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    Is critical angle diagram realistic?

    thanks nasu for the most convincing answer. Thank you all Well I looked for a textbook-writer's response. Had the author made a brief note of indefiniteness( also the decreased intensity or the presence of additional refracted ray), why would i post the question?
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    Is critical angle diagram realistic?

    as per diagrams in textbooks, if incidence angle = critical angle then the ray should travel straight until it reaches the surface of the denser medium and then go tangentially to the boundary something like the following...
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