Poemranker [Replying] Thu Nov 21 17:18:35 PST 2024

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Light rain slides down the window Sky painted a sloppy gray And if you fool yourself You'll walk with smile on your face Slimy rock and dirt your path Not a friend along the way You know not to kid yourself In fear of looking lame All you can imagine is some life So boring, sober, sane No need to kill yourself If existence has gone to Frey Sure you could rewrite the world Would that make you happy? And if you'd fool yourself You'll find you became too sappy

drnick

17-Oct-06/1:31 PM

I will explain both the cause and the cause's cause.

Cause: The rain sliding down the window is caused by a force, particularly gravitational force. The attractive force of gravity between the earth's mass and the rain's mass is allowed to acclerate the droplet because it has a greater magnitude than that of the force of static friction in the opposite direction. The gravitational potential energy the droplet has is now transferring to kenetic and thermal energy. This is why the rain slid down the window.

Cause's Cause: I'm not sure what you mean by "cause's cause" so I'll answer both ways...#1 The gravitational force was caused by both the droplet and the earth having a non-zero mass. Without mass, there is no grav. force. #2 This question is inherantly a theological one as you are assuming there is a reason for gravitational force. For it to have a reason, it would have to benefit from it's action: attracting masses together. As of now, I know not of any benefit to any law of physics for existing. You are trying to place human qualities on something that is not human, not living, not material.

I wouldn't mock a question like that, it was a good question.

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