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personally I think its arrogant of us to assume (with our miniscule understanding of the universe) that there is such a thing as an immovable or unstoppable object :P

but then again, the worlds flat too right? ;)

 

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@SimonV In order for the unstoppable froce to "bounce and return" as you suggest, there would have to be an almost infinitely brief moment when it stopped going in one direction, then resumed in the other.

Therefore, not the answer

 

Jak - sorry did not realise that you were looking for answers to your sig. OK here goes.


The irrestable force - An irrestable force would indicate that nothing could resist the energy being carried forward and would therefore be irrestable

The immovable object - An immovable object would indicate that there is no force which could move the object and therefore would be immovable

BEAR WITH ME FOLKS!! - dreec - BSc in stating the bleedin obvious

When the irrestable force met the immovable object there is only one possible outcome which goes back to the basics of physics.
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed but only changed from one type to another"

The energy created by the irrestable force would therefore be changed from the kinetic energy of movement into another type of energy, inevitably this energy would be heat and light. The energy (heat) disapated through the immovable object would cause the molecules and atoms within this object to vibrate at a greatly increased rate causing the atomic structure of the object to disintergrate, remembering that energy cannot be created or destroyed, as the object disintergrated the energy released would also become primarily heat and light.

So to answer the question briefly "What happens when an irrestable force meets the immovable object" the answer would be a blinding flash of light and a huge release of heat.

Obviously the question is purely theoritical as there is no such thing as an irrestable force nor is there any such object which is strictly speaking immovable.

In fact many of us have to seen the closest we can get to irrestable force meet the immovable object, if only on TV. This is metorite collisions.

 

Well put dreec, but not quite so snappy for a sig, though, eh ?

EDIT: I was never seeking an answer - it is just one of those great imponderables. :hhhmmm

 

ok dreec

Why when you phone the wrong number is it never engaged?

 

Come on Derek - you're not getting away with that one :roll: If we were to go through and analyse all of your sigs, we'd be here from now till Longhorn is finally released :P

@Dreec - you may not yet have encountered Nelix's "Time to Change the Sig" post - go knock yourself out

Finally, you know I'm kidding you , Derek

 

no it was always the wrong number, you dialed it incorrectly
however you dont know that until the person has answered and told you that you have the wrong number, so when making a call and the line is engaged, it could indeed be, the wrong number, but you will never know
;)

 

Just like when I used to work for the postal service delivering letters. I'd hand a letter to a customer and they'd say..."You've got the wrong address. That person doesn't live here". Actually, the address was right in that it matched the one on the residence, I just had the wrong person.