Can You Swim Uphill?

mp3kla said:
The water would never be at a slope. You'd always be swimming level. Unless you were in a river running downhill - then you'd be against the current. The pool would just be deeper at one and and shallow at the other.

(I feel just as stupid for explaining it).
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Actually you're wrong, water is ALWAYS at a slope. The sea isn't flat, and neither (to not quite an extent) is a lake or swimming pool. So in answer to RandomTom, yes you can swim uphill.:p
 
Here's the simple guide to a sloping pool:

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yantorsen said:
but you tend to swim through waves/ripples.
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I wasn't talking about waves/ripples.;)

Tides are one of the most well known reasons the sea isn't flat, there is another one though that makes the sea/oceans even more 'hilly'. A virtual cookie for anyone that knows it. :D
 
This reminds me of an Irish joke I was told just the other day.
Please excuse it, I'm rubbish at reciting jokes.

Paddy was talking to O'Keefe about sporting activities saying "I wanted to try that water skiing the other day, but I couldn't find a lake on a slope."
Well it made me chuckle at the time,
 
Of course you can swim uphill. It's just that with a few exceptions you're all idiots.

First ask yourself, can I swim downhill? Naturally. Water does not only exist in stagnant pools. Streams start off in hills and mountains, and flow downhill and become rivers, lakes and rivers again until they reach the sea. This is how water works. If one were unable to swim uphill, all boats would only be able to move in one direction. The gradient is low enough that swimming up hill is quite possible. Just not waterfalls, for obvious reasons.

A demonstration:

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A river on a hill of any noticeable gradient is likely to be flowing at a fair old lick, so very unlikely to be able to swim against the current.
 
Gilly said:
That isn't uphill.
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So if you build a mound in an ocean and swim upwards at a degree of 45deg it makes a difference to when the mound wasn't there?

You are not serious.

To pre-empt further madness, original post said pool, yes, pool or ocean, forget the difference, he mentioned no water flow.
 
It's not physically possible to have a sloping pool. If gravity was such that the water slopes fine, then gravity will act on the person swimming as well - so technically he's going in a straight line and not uphill - it's all relative.
 
KNiVES said:
It's not physically possible to have a sloping pool. If gravity was such that the water slopes fine, then gravity will act on the person swimming as well - so technically he's going in a straight line and not uphill - it's all relative.
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You could actually.
The pools floor would basically be at an angle ;)

But yeah the surface would not be sloped...which is what you said, oh dear..bed time.
 
Amp34 said:
I wasn't talking about waves/ripples.;)

Tides are one of the most well known reasons the sea isn't flat, there is another one though that makes the sea/oceans even more 'hilly'. A virtual cookie for anyone that knows it. :D
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that doesn't count, because obviously we're speaking relative to earth.
 
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