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    Your vote for the most mysterious and wonderful of equations

    Figured this would bring interesting responses. Mine is Newton's third law, only because of how it applies to rockets - the idea that some gun/rocket accelerates forward exactly based on the speed and mass of the bullets/exhaust is pretty weird when u think about it. That's something moving...
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    Why cant u go to outer space like an upwards climbing roller coaster?

    when you reach that part 'which the Earth can no longer hold onto you'.. wouldn't u just climb up and then bam.. your floating?
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    Why does the Earth rotate around the sun?

    This is my own difficulty. Our local group of galaxies goes around another local group in a space time 'disturbed bowl' Our galaxies in our local group go around each other in a disturbed spacetime bowl Our sun goes around our galaxy center of mass in a bowl Our planets go around the sun...
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    Why is the Earth a perpetual motion machine

    Seems like an odd question - but if your an astraunaut in Earth orbit and travel with it around the sun - your going different speeds around the sun but always traveling the same distance away from any two points on the sun every second (keplers #2) the how = closer you are to sun, the faster...
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    How do metaphors shape our understanding of reality?

    There's actually a disconnect between things like 'metaphor' and intelligence. The prodigy portrayed in the movie 'rain-man' (actor was dustin hoffman) was a man who could rattle off basically anything memory wise (phone book like)... but if you said 'get a hold of yourself' he would grab his...
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    In your own personal life, how often do you use this equation?

    Thought this would be an interesting topic. so just in everyday life, what sort of stuff have you applied the tool K = 1/2 mv squared for?
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