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Collisions
Elastic collision
- There is a problem the so-called “perfectly elastic” collisions
- I think there is no such thing
- Perfectly elastic means that colliding bodies are perfectly hard, that is, absolutely indivisible. In this case bodies will stick together.
- But furthermore, an indivisible unit cannot move. Aristotle says something similar.
- Collision means transfer of motion.
- Collision has nothing to da with Newtonian occult forces acting between indivisible units.
- Newtonists see the world in terms of forces.
- Force in physics is like momey in society. It serves to compare things that cannot be compared. So force like money is a unit conversation tool.