RE: Some people believe that gravity doesn't exist
October 19, 2017 at 7:53 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2017 at 7:53 am by Anomalocaris.)
(October 19, 2017 at 7:51 am)Khemikal Wrote: -and yet it's shape hasn't changed.
It’s external shape hasn’t changed. But who said the shape effecting water displacement has to be a single external shape? The shape of the parts that excluded water has changed.
(October 19, 2017 at 7:52 am)Succubus Wrote:(October 19, 2017 at 7:43 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Yes. A submarine submerges by reducing the amount of water it displaces. It does so by allowing water into parts of its interior, name the ballast tanks, that formerly excluded, thus displaced, water...
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*Scare quotes in the Google search. Water displacing shape is not an engineering term.
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It’s a concept that flows from understanding of buoyancy.