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Ever experienced overcoming the feeling of gravity? No? Well, me neither! But thats normal gravity or vertical gravity or gravity as everybody knows it. Ever thought about horizontal counterpart of the 'traditional' gravity? Some force that pulls you back when you try a horizontal motion. Thats friction, for the uninitiated, and Horizontal Gravity in my world!!
Tried beating friction for an extended period? I live for it. And I am sure only the feeling of defying gravity in a rocket could bring almost the same amount of joy. Well almost. For the real thing, you have to defy Horizontal Gravity.
Confused? Well, all I mean there is: Fast Driving! I love driving. Driving fast, that is. Probably its not just driving fast, i guess its a combination of ambition and the thrill of speed that I am talking about there. Remember 'Fast Car' (Tracy Chapman)? Well, certain lines from that will give you some idea what I mean:
"I
remember we were driving, driving in your car
Actually 'Highway Star' would give a better idea of the thrill I am talkin about but I like this involvement of emotion in 'Fast Car' over 'Highway Star'.
Do u also love driving like mad?
I would love to drive a Formula 1 sometime. The price tag is also quite tempting! Update Feb 14, 2005: This Economist (Dec 29, 2004) article on Einstein '100 Years of Einstein. Miraculous Visions' supports my view of gravity and friction! Need I say more? :) An Excerpt: "The speed restriction was a problem for Newton's theory of gravity. That is because, according to Newton, gravity travels instantaneously—which, according to Einstein, is an impossibility. This set Einstein to thinking about exactly what mass is. In 1907, he realised that the feeling a person gets when being pulled to the Earth by gravity is identical in nature to that which he gets while accelerating—being pushed, for instance, against the seatback of an aeroplane when it is taking off. Both of these are related to that person's mass, but classical physics assumed they were different mass-related phenomena. Einstein, however, concluded that because gravity and acceleration seem the same, they are the same. He dubbed this conjecture the principle of equivalence. However, unlike the case of special relativity, for which Lorentz had worked out the maths beforehand, in this case there was nothing around to which to apply this insight into the way that gravity works. It took Einstein a further nine years, and the help of a mathematician friend named Marcel Grossman, to work out the maths behind the general theory of relativity which, at its heart, is no more than an embodiment of this insight. By incisively and insightfully choosing what had to remain invariant in his theory (based, of course, on the real world), Einstein varied the established conception of what space and time are." |
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Last updated: Feb 14, 2005 Created: Feb 10, 2002 |
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