On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Andy Farnell <padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk>wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2011 07:08:18 -0400 > Billy Stiltner <billy.stilt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Now imagine a whammy bar fixed with the smoothest > > bearings and axle known. Now imagine the atomic structure of the axle and > > bearing. Isn't the whammy bar going to stop at little steps at the flat > > spots where any 2 atoms of the bearings line up with any 2 atoms of the > > axle? Would this not be discrete. > > > If the whammy was long, a finite, discrete change of angle would make > the end of the bar move several inches. Since it could not exist in > any position between two discrete angles the end would have to move > instantaneously (infinite velocity) between two positions in space. > > This would lead to sore fingers. > I didn't think it through very well.
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