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I was imprecise: I'm not talking wing-walkers, I mean standing inside a plane, where wind is hopefully nonexistent

• hutzlibu 10y ago
  Hm ... and then you expect people would say, they would land backwards? I think allmost everybody would get it right ...
  • roywiggins 10y ago
    This is based on muddled memories of a highschool physics class, but yes- I'd expect a lot of people to get it wrong, based on the sheer number of my classmates who persistently got it wrong. My teacher subscribed to a slightly nuts teaching philosophy which involved polling the class repeatedly, so I had a pretty good sense of how hard people found the ideas. Example: literally the other reply to my comment. The notion of an "impeller" to continue uniform motion is Aristotelian, and it seems to coincide with a lot of people's intuition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175605
    • kwhitefoot 10y ago
      > The notion of an "impeller" to continue uniform motion is Aristotelian, and it seems to coincide with a lot of people's intuition: It also coincides with the kinds of experiment that people using Aristotelian physics are in a position to perform. See my comment about Carlo Rovelli's paper.