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Thought experiment - Froge - 07-30-2013
You have two poles firmly ingrained into the ground which can never be uprooted. Hanging around one pole is an elastic band which can stretch infinitely.
If you pulled at this elastic band and walked all the way around the surface of the Earth, once you arrive back at the two poles, would the elastic band be transferred onto the other pole?
RE: Thought experiment - nemesis567 - 07-30-2013
What do you mean by transferred to the other pole?
RE: Thought experiment - Kman - 07-30-2013
prob
RE: Thought experiment - triadtimes - 07-30-2013
depends how you held the band: if you kept it taut then, no; if you stretched the band out like some kinda doofus, yea probably. most cases it'd still be on the first pole, though, considering how fucking huge earth is.
also, somethingsomethingsomething friction.
RE: Thought experiment - Focalize - 07-30-2013
It stays on the original pole unless chrono ninja flips over both poles with the elastic. It's an elastic not a loose rope, you're prolly not strong enough to put the whole earth through it.
RE: Thought experiment - Froge - 07-30-2013
But the Earth is round. Theoretically, by walking around it, the band should be transferred onto the other pole.
RE: Thought experiment - CarnivorousJelly - 07-30-2013
If it stretches around the entire world, yes it will end up on the pole. if you keep it taught, then it won't be transferred.
Huzzah!
RE: Thought experiment - Kreekakon - 07-30-2013
Try it with a basketball, sphere, or whatever spherical object which is small. What happens there is probably what would happen if you did it to the Earth.
RE: Thought experiment - BAndrew - 07-30-2013
Theoretically, yes. I don't see why it wouldn't be transfered to the other pole.
RE: Thought experiment - PutraenusAlivius - 07-30-2013
Um no for me.