There is a fantastic quote in an article in the December 2007 issue of Physics Today that discusses the awarding of last year's Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri for their environmentalist work. (Notice, by the way, that Gore can get an Oscar and a Nobel but not the U.S. Presidency. We all lost there...) The beautiful line was uttered by Michael Oppenheimer:
"The award will add further momentum to the accelerating engagement of politicians and the public toward solving the problem."
Instead, I would like to see them accelerate and thereby increase the momentum (assuming constant mass). Anyway, I was amused by the wording of the above sentence.
2 days ago
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Perhaps the acceleration is due to loss of mass -> we must account for all of the hot gases being expelled, right?
(See Wikipedia: Rocket Equation)
Heh, that's a good point.
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