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Thought Experiment (Part 2) - Froge - 08-01-2013
If the Earth was shaped like a square pyramid, how would the physics of things be like at the tip vertex?
RE: Thought Experiment (Part 2) - Ghieri - 08-01-2013
(08-01-2013, 06:28 AM)Chronocat Wrote: If the Earth was shaped like a square pyramid, how would the physics of things be like at the tip vertex?
Awkward...
RE: Thought Experiment (Part 2) - Kreekakon - 08-01-2013
I'd guess that the Earth would slowly get crushed back into its ball shapes by gravity.
RE: Thought Experiment (Part 2) - Froge - 08-01-2013
(08-01-2013, 06:44 AM)Kreekakon Wrote: I'd guess that the Earth would slowly get crushed back into its ball shapes by gravity.naw man
I want to visualize how the vertex would look if you stood there.
RE: Thought Experiment (Part 2) - PutraenusAlivius - 08-01-2013
Gravity is pulled to the center of the Earth so... a ball thrown will got into the middle?
RE: Thought Experiment (Part 2) - MyRedNeptune - 08-01-2013
Nothing special... You would be pulled towards the center of mass as usual. So that would be directly down when standing at the tip.
EDIT: You just induced into me unpleasant flashbacks of Amnesia's Cradle. Great job!
RE: Thought Experiment (Part 2) - Tiger - 08-01-2013
(08-01-2013, 06:44 AM)Kreekakon Wrote: I'd guess that the Earth would slowly get crushed back into its ball shapes by gravity.
RE: Thought Experiment (Part 2) - Bridge - 08-01-2013
A square pyramid?
RE: Thought Experiment (Part 2) - Froge - 08-01-2013
pyramid with square base
(08-01-2013, 08:49 PM)MyRedNeptune Wrote: Nothing special... You would be pulled towards the center of mass as usual. So that would be directly down when standing at the tip.u mean da judas cradle?
EDIT: You just induced into me unpleasant flashbacks of Amnesia's Cradle. Great job!
You know, they had to get that guy to be naked first before the anal torture started...
RE: Thought Experiment (Part 2) - Danny Boy - 08-02-2013
Well since the question as already been answered.
Its funny to know that: If you pick a square, remove the top edge, and extend the other two sides parallel to each other to infinity. You would have technically made a triangle.