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The Dome Paradox: A Loophole in Newton's Laws

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Ian Grant

Well done! What a great video. I was a bit shocked by what happened to the little girl on that awful slide though!

Ian Grant

Actually, watching it again, I realise that what happens to the cow earlier on is even worse! Fortunately though we are only shown the consequences for the idealized point-mass, not the actual cow!

John Shioli

Hi Jade, Love this video! This is exactly the kind of content that makes me look forward to seeing every new post that you put up. You have a knack for picking topics that make us rethink some long held belief or opinion. Great job!

Tim Ludwig

Hi Jade! Many thanks for that fantastic video! Not that anyone should care ... but in my opinion, the problem is one of over-idealization in model building: If one would account for other (mostly random) forces, the problem of multiple solutions would never arise in any real physical system; it would still be an indeterministic description (due to the randomness of the forces) but it wouldn't be indeterministic because of some mathematical problem.

Michael Dean

Great work, Jade. Your videos are so entertaining, which makes the education you provide so much easier to understand. :)

Brian Deschene

Don’t buy it. Someone invented something they termed excitation time and applied it to a situation that was just as concocted to create what seems like a conundrum. I invoke (paraphrased) something written by Isaac Asimov long ago. The riddle: “There’s a town with only one barber who shaves every man who does not shave himself. So, who shaves the barber?” Whereas some try to view something like this as some deep paradox, others rightfully dismiss it as a poorly conceived, contrived situation that means nothing and deserves only to be ignored.