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To say that a fully inflated tire has greater friction and acceleration goes completely counter to the drag racing world using lower tire pressure to increase surface area of traction(more friction between tire and track) to accelerate faster. Rolling "resistance" and rolling "friction" are...

The friction I am referring to is the friction between the tire and the road at the surface area of contact. Whether the tire rolls or slides doesn't change the cause/source of the friction, it only changes the direction of force and the amount of friction. A sliding tire has more friction than...

I can imagine pushing a car with half flat tires in neutral vs pushing a car with fully inflated tires in neutral. I can push with enough force to maintain a constant speed in both scenarios but in one it will be much easier, regardless of the fact that in both scenarios my feet are the point of...

So, two or more particles with zero mass have a combined total of greater than zero mass? How is this an exception to the mathematical principle of 0+0=0? A photon is a particle of energy instead of a particle of matter such as a proton or electron, isn't it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but...

Light is quantized as photons but this quantification is a representation of an amount of energy, not a representation of an amount of matter or mass, photons are considered "mass-less", meaning, they are not made of a substantial material that occupies space. They are not made of an amount of...

That was my thought exactly while I was reading through all the posts here...the buoyancy force doesn't "disappear" if the object sinks completely to the bottom, it just isn't greater than the downward force. Wouldn't the difference in forces have more to do with how quickly or slowly the object...

Where does gravity start and stop? Gravityf Do you mean to say... Why does matter localize and gravitate "here" and not "there"? Please correct me wherever I am wrong or could be more specific here, but.. Chaos? Entropy in a complex system? The so-called "butterfly effect"? The randomness of...

Traditional manner meaning electron bonding I only mention bonding because bonding requires electrons, a previous post in this thread mentions that plasma lacks electrons or has no electrons...which would mean no bonding possible for atoms in a plasma. My question was aimed at the statement...

This is to see if I'm understanding other things that have been mentioned in this thread... Differences in crystalline phases of solids are caused by the arrangement of atoms/molecules being different, but the atoms/molecules are still bonded in the traditional manner. Plasma atoms are ionized...

This has already been stated in simpler form, but... Gas is gas Liquid is liquid Solid is solid Plasma is plasma These states can't be mixed, matter can only be in one form at a time, it can't be a combination of two or more forms. Although, matter in a certain state can "appear" to be in...

I don't get what you're asking exactly, varying the wavelength of light is the same as varying color because the differences in the wavelength of light is what we perceive as color, anything changing the "hue", should change the wavelength. Maybe you should read something like this to...

The "bigger" the atom, the "bigger" its nucleus is, the "bigger" the nucleus, the more unstable the balance between the binding forces and the scattering forces becomes. This is what causes an atom to emit radiation(particles) and decay into other atoms. Feynman was probably theorizing that...

I was replying more to his comment about "attracts itself" than what does or doesn't actually bind them.

I'm no expert, but this makes no sense from my simple perspective. It attracts itself with no charge? Wouldn't that go against symmetries and charge=attraction/opposition? Without charge, what do you propose would cause it to "attract itself"? How about gauge symmetry or the usage of arbitrary...

Uniform/equal pressure in any volume of any size/shape bound within any object or surrounded by any other volume(s) is/are uniform/equal pressure at any/all points within said volume. To say that there would be any kind of difference in pressure of any kind at any point within that volume...