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Posted 2008-08-26, 06:49 PM in reply to Kazilla's post starting "...Lemme take you on a trip - into the..."
Kazilla said: [Goto]
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Now if i kick this ball directly at your face its going to keep moving until it hits your face. Where it comes to a halt.

Now if i get recoiled into a wall, im going to keep moving until i hit that wall.

Your grey matter is approaching terminal viscosity.

A ball that comes to a perfect halt when hitting another object would be a marvelous way to transfer kinetic energy. In reality, its (absolute) impulse will always be greater than the absolute value of its momentum. Also, the only way you could get recoiled into a wall, and then keep moving until you hit the wall (again) would be if you and the wall made up the only significant masses in the system, e.g. if you found yourself colliding and rebounding off a wall in otherwise empty space.
"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today." - Stephen Wolfram

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