Recent content by TimeDependent

Do you know, I agree with both those last five replies on most points? You may use quotation marks as you please, "malawi glenn", despite how it may look. Neither you nor anyone else had answered the question adequately to that point, and you've mistaken me greatly. I offered a point of view...

Don't use quotation marks on a name, malawi glenn. You sound like you're getting rather too personal about the argument. The wave, the 'squiggle' as i refer to it, is normally seen as a wave of probability density, indeed, but this is not fundamentally proven, depending on the interpretation...

Seriously, nobody here has answered the question adequately. If you can't explain it to your grandmother, you don't understand it! Without leaving the domain of conventional physics, we should consider the wave-particle duality, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and de Broglie wavelength...

Thanks, dog', but I'm trying to answer the physics question. To be more specific, I mean that the relevant equations should include a KE reduction based on friction, eg K = 1/2*I*w^2 - mkv^2, with m mass, and where k is a constant based on relative density of air, ladder/worker falling...

You've missed two things here. Both are frictional. One: There is a dependence of air friction on velocity, see the Bernoulli equation for further details. Note that this decreases the rate of acceleration for both cases slightly, but *more* so for the initially slow hold-onto-your-ladder case...