Hi Fred: Interesting explanation - and it lead to an hour of browsing some of the other U-tube presentations by and on Richard Feynman. Really fascinating. regards, Rance Velapoldi (Tranby, Norway)
On 4/8/2011 3:38 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Fellow travelers, > > This link is to a very elegant explanation, given by Richard Feynman, > perhaps the most brilliant theoretical physicist ever, on why a train > stays on the track. At first I thought this was a fascinating railroad > general interest item with little specific connection to S scale, but > the more I turn it over in my mind, it does bear on the > scale/hirail/AF question, in that the thing that keeps an S scale > train on the track is in fact, the same phenomenon that keeps a real > train on the track, while the thing that keeps an AF train on the > track actually is the flange! > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WAwDvbIfkos > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WAwDvbIfkos> > > Enjoy! > > Fred Tolhurst > > Maryville, TN > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
