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Devac · 2752 days ago · link · · parent · post: Implication of Sabotage Adds Intrigue to Space-X Investigation
Exactly! Although to be fair, after doing some reading on more advanced physics I think it would be closer to the truth with addition "and if it moves then it behaves like a harmonic (or an anharmonic) oscillator". Seriously, it's both baffling and amazing that pretty much anything that deals with matter, energy exchange or radiation can be boiled down to a frigging pendulum with some extra terms to the equation and being put in a context. So far it looks like the 'extra terms' and 'finding context' are the bulk of physicist's work. I don't know if I'll stay behind it a year or two from now, but that's definitely something I'll be pondering.