18th June 2005, 10:52 PM
Just thought I'd remind you...
Anyway, which elevator are you speaking of? If it's the one in free fall towards a planet, then it doens't matter if the floor tilts because you are floating around in there. With no pull to the floor of the elevator, no sliding is going to happen. Further, tilting reletive to what? With no up or down, a surface can hardly be defined as "level".
Anyway, which elevator are you speaking of? If it's the one in free fall towards a planet, then it doens't matter if the floor tilts because you are floating around in there. With no pull to the floor of the elevator, no sliding is going to happen. Further, tilting reletive to what? With no up or down, a surface can hardly be defined as "level".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)