Can You Swim Uphill?

Gaverick said:
If you had a sealed container then you could create an uphill pool I suppose

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stick man's gonna die :(
 
For a sloping pool you'd need to take into consideration gravity. As the water from above will have tendancy to fall back down to Earth. Lets say, the slope is the hypotenuse, and the adjacent and the opposite of the sloping angle were sides respective of a 90 degree triangle. Gravity would need to be acted on the hypotenuse perpendicular to the surface. Lets say the water has weight, mg. The gravity would need to act on the plane mg*sin*theta. Now, as gravity acts perendicular along the surface of the Earth then you'd need to rearrange the gravitons within the space-time continuum to act along the plane of mg*sin*theta with the limits of where theta begins and where the hypotenuse meets the adjacent. This is because any other area would also be effected outside the reagion due to graviton activity. This as an inequality, would be represented as x <_ mg.sing.theta <_ y where x and y represent the sloping limits respectfully. When the human race has mastered the Ricochet theory, then, and only then can the question be asked, "can you swim uphill?".
 
if you tried to swim up hill then all of the water would just fall out. Mind you, you could try drinking it and then excreting it whilst swimming - would that count?
 
basmic said:
Let's put in another way. Can you swim up a waterfall?
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That's not the same question in another way - it's a different question. The problem with a waterfall is that you may not have an absolutely continuous body of water and, even if you did, it would probably only be a relatively thin strip of water and thus you'd make much less contact with it than a large body of water.
 
fini said:
That's not the same question in another way - it's a different question. The problem with a waterfall is that you may not have an absolutely continuous body of water and, even if you did, it would probably only be a relatively thin strip of water and thus you'd make much less contact with it than a large body of water.
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Good point. So it's more like swimming up a river that's flowing downhill.
 
RandomTom said:
The pool could be on a slope, and the water going downhill could be pumped back to the top.

edit: I know this is totally LOLworthy, but I'm just looking for some answers from everyone.
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yes you can swim up hill - to a limit depending on your swimming ability & the slope.

a very tiny gradient will cause a current in say a river(or swimming pool with mega strong fictional pump) - swimming against this will cause you to swim uphill

Obviously swimming up a vertical waterfall is pretty much impossible for a human

so basically yes you can swim uphill up to a gradient somewhere between almost horizontal & a vertical waterfall (but probably closer to almost horizontal)
 
This thread goes beyond Madness :p
O.P.
I would stay away from sharp objects for a week if i was you & seek medical advice.
 
As far as I can tell there are 3 distinct possibilites:


Sloping pool with no current, therefore must be closed container. Same as swimming to the surface from the bottom of a "flat" pool.

Sloping pool with free surface. Water would flow to the downhill end of the pool and overflow. A pump would be needed to maintain the "slope" of the water. Swimming uphill in this would be pretty much the same as swimming against a current in a flat river, but with gravity providing a component of resistive force as well as the current. Would be very difficult to swim uphill in ths situation.

Standard, "flat" pool. Swimming uphill is basically diving to the bottom and returning to the surface. Very easy because bouyancy acts in your favour against relatively small resistive forces.'

edit: Tom, what are you smoking? :p
 
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