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Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

I know that. When an astronomer speaks of the distance of a hundred thousand light years across the Andromeda Galaxy one must have a little knowledge of physics to understand what it means. 

A relative of mine whose husband (Guyanese) studied physics at the college of London in the early sixties told me about a Guyanese physicist by the name of Dr. Chandra who tried to prove that a spinning top defies Newton's law of inertia. This is what he said. I don't know if it has any merit to it. 

I do not know this Dr Chandra. A top spins because it got its inertia from some one imparting the spin. The sum total of its inertia acts perpendicular to its spin and keep it upright. In space that would continue forever. I do not know of any proof that could add to or subtract from its inertia except an external action. Friction slows it down and cause it to lose momentum on earth. Nothing slows it down in space. There is no stationary non rotating object observed in space. By the way, Andromeda is twice the size of the milky way...some 200 light years across... and it is careening our way

FM
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