<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Gravity makes things fall roughly 32 feet per second per second. Resisting that gives things weight.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Momentum makes things go in a straight line. Resisting that gives things weight.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These two sources of weight are indistinguishable without abstract analysis of the context where the weight is experienced. In all likelihood, splitting up weight created by gravity and momentum is artificial; an abstract required in order to use Newtonian math. More likely, there is more simply a Way Things Fall. The same parabolic curve can be interpreted as a vector calculation of horizontal momentum and vertical gravity, or it could be seen as… a parabolic curve.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any deviation from the parabolic curve creates weight. It doesn’t matter if it is vertical weight or horizontal weight. It’s still weight.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Most scales we use don’t compare two masses. They merely measure the compression of a spring or the deviation of properties of electricity passing through a physically stressed material, because that’s cheaper to make and easier to get a reading from, so we measure weight, not mass, unless we have the classic “doctor’s scale”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, on a doctor’s scale, I’d weigh the same on the Moon as I do here, but on any other scale, I’d weigh several times less on the Moon.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The scale doesn’t weigh how hard gravity pulls you. It weighs how much you resist that pull, which is why when you wiggle, the measurement wiggles, since your shifts in momentum change your weight.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m very zealous about physics.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 29, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Alan Anderson <<a href="mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net" class="">qunchuy@alcaco.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">The only confusion is in the minds of people who were indoctrinated by overzealous physics teachers in high school. The legal definition of a pound *is* a mass.<br class=""><br class="">-- ghunchu'wI'<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 29, 2020, at 8:57 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Unfortunately, the canon uses of {cheb}/{cheb'a'} confuse weight and mass.<br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>