<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Andy Farnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk">padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 9 May 2011 07:08:18 -0400<br>
Billy Stiltner <<a href="mailto:billy.stiltner@gmail.com">billy.stiltner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Now imagine a whammy bar fixed with the smoothest<br>
> bearings and axle known. Now imagine the atomic structure of the axle and<br>
> bearing. Isn't the whammy bar going to stop at little steps at the flat<br>
> spots where any 2 atoms of the bearings line up with any 2 atoms of the<br>
> axle? Would this not be discrete.<br>
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</div>If the whammy was long, a finite, discrete change of angle would make<br>
the end of the bar move several inches. Since it could not exist in<br>
any position between two discrete angles the end would have to move<br>
instantaneously (infinite velocity) between two positions in space.<br>
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This would lead to sore fingers.<br></blockquote></div><br><br>I didn't think it through very well. <br>