If they had lived now

[EEPhil]

... our beloved Imperial units ...

Speak for yourself. I find SI units much easier when dealing with all those pesky electromagnetic equations and the like. (But a pain when driving!)

 

[gomezz]

If Lord Kelvin were alive now, he would measure temperature in degrees Thomson.

Would he be suing for trying to pass of designer kecks as carrying his seal of approval?

 

[EEPhil]

Or for using his title to sell refrigerators and freezers.

 

[af123]

If Lord Kelvin were alive now, he would measure temperature in degrees Thomson.

He probably still wouldn't use "degrees" though..

 

[EEPhil]

Carl David Tolmé Runge and Martin Wilhelm Kutta would be diplomats, hoping to make a finite difference to this crazy world.

 

[EEPhil]

Sir Isaac Newton would own an orchard and produce "Gravity Cider - So strong, it brings you down to earth with a bump".

 

[Black Hole]

But gravity is the weakest force!

 

[EEPhil]

But gravity is the weakest force!

There's always someone wanting to point out the [black] hole in the contributions!

 

[Trev]

But it still brings me down with a bump when I trip.

 

[af123]

But it still brings me down with a bump when I trip.

That's the earth accelerating up to meet you ; )

 

[Black Hole]

But it still brings me down with a bump when I trip.

Sure, but that's the mass of the entire Earth providing the pull, which is easily counteracted by our puny muscles. Gravity seems strong because it only falls off with the square of distance instead of the fourth power (or something) of the other forces.

"Gravity Cider - So much stronger than other forces at long range, it brings you down to earth with a bump"

 

[EEPhil]

That's the earth accelerating up to meet you ; )

But why doesn't it accelerate up to meet the person next to me who didn't trip?

 

[MikeSh]

But gravity is the weakest force!

But is it a force? I thought it was a dent in the space-time continuum (or something like that).

 

[Black Hole]

If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...

However physicists find it convenient to model a system to make the calculations come out right, that's all it is - a model.

 

[EEPhil]

If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...

...it could be someone with a model duck stuck to their hat, blowing a duck whistle and carrying a shotgun.

 

[Deleted member 473]

But why doesn't it accelerate up to meet the person next to me who didn't trip?

That's time dilation for you. The c multiplier makes all the difference, multiplying the minute difference in time as someone slips and falls.

 

[Deleted member 473]

The Austin Maxi would have called itself the BMW mini.

 

[EEPhil]

The Austin Maxi would have called itself the BMW mini.

In which case the Morris Minor would be a front engined VW Beetle.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Brontosaurus would say "told you so, it took them until 2015 to admit I existed"

Apatosaurus would say "they said we all looked alike!"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brontosaurus-is-back1/

 

[Deleted member 473]

There would still be no antidote for Socrates.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_thi...k_tea_as_his_preferred_mode_of_execution.html

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/821362-treatment#d10