Hi Krim On inanimate rocks, are they? Of course a rock stays put because it is frozen at Earth temperatures. But heat it up a bit and it flows or bubbles off.
Solid things seeem inanimate, but do the particles they are made of?
Particles don't sit around, they fly off in unpredictable directions. Why do solid things made of particles sit around. Gravity? Not entirely, they have inertia. They keep sitting or given a push keep moving. What is animate? Able to change from sitting to moving or moving to sitting? Why do solid things sit around? Well, particles are like cats that want to keep moving but you can get them all tied down by tying them up to each other. Tie up enough of these cats with them all pulling in different directions and they just are not going to move anywhere. Remind you of anything at MOQ central? Anyway, there's your rock, bursting to move off but in every direction at once. Of course, there is a very small chance all the particle cats could 'decide' to move in the same direction at the same time, so keep an eye on your rock and you never know. At least that'sthe physics of so-called inanimate rocks, eh Krim? David M Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
