En Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:05:27 -0200, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> On 2008-02-11, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well the history of physics for at least two hundred years has >> been a migration away from the intuitive. > > Starting at least as far back as Newtonian mechanics. I once > read a very interesting article about some experiments that > showed that even simple newtonian physics is counter-intuitive. The inertia principle is counter-intuitive too, in a real world with friction. Things don't just "keep going" when impulse cease to exist; everyone knows that a running car eventually stops if the engine stops. That it "would" keep moving at the same speed in a straight line is an abstraction that people hardly can build from experience. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
