Philosophical (is it?) question

JollyGreen · 24 Feb 2006 at 13:40

The whole up/down reverse gravity this is ridiculous, even IF the slinky were to be attracted to a gravitational force inversely directional to whatever concept of "down" you have concoted it would just fall up off the staircase rather move back up.

Mat · 24 Feb 2006 at 13:44

Yes, the whole reason the slinky appears to "walk" downstairs is because the stairs are in the way. All the poor slinky wants to do is to get the the source of the gravity as quickly as possible. If that happens to be "up" then it will just "fall" upwards, it wont walk back up the stairs... but then was that not the OP question? Would it be possible for the slinky to "walk" upstairs??

My head hurts.

JollyGreen · 24 Feb 2006 at 13:48

Mat said:
Yes, the whole reason the slinky appears to "walk" downstairs is because the stairs are in the way. All the poor slinky wants to do is to get the the source of the gravity as quickly as possible. If that happens to be "up" then it will just "fall" upwards, it wont walk back up the stairs... but then was that not the OP question? Would it be possible for the slinky to "walk" upstairs??

My head hurts.

Maybe if you had an extremely small and precise moving gravity source, that applied gravitational forces to the right areas of the slink at the right time to simulating walking motion.

iCraig · 24 Feb 2006 at 13:55

Che said:
Okay. Say we live in an infinite universe. Because it is infinite then it can be assumed that everything is happening at some point blah blah, stick a thousand monkeys in a room with a thousand type writers and they'll produce a literary masterpiece.

Hello Karl Pilkington.