Thursday, December 6, 2012

Sir Isaac Newton.


Todos sabemos la historia del famoso físico Ingles al que le cayó una manzana en la cabeza cuando reposaba debajo de un árbol, hecho que lo llevo a pensar acerca del efecto que tiene la gravedad sobre todos los cuerpos con una masa determinada.  Pero ahora me pongo a pensar yo que hubiese pasado si en vez de una manzana le hubiese caído en la cabeza un mango hilacha? o, tal vez un níspero maduro? o, una guayaba con gusano? Una pregunta un poco necia pero valida según mi punto de vista, y haciendo fe de las propias leyes que sus estudios llevaron a establecer la física de hoy en día (por aquello de acción y reacción) suena hasta muy probable que si hubiese sido otra fruta, el hubiese tenido que pensar en otra cosa.  Aunque haciendo un paréntesis, y analizando bien las preguntas que tenemos arriba, la respuesta parece simple, Newton tuvo que haber nacido Venezolano. 

We all know the history of the world famous physicist that was hit by an apple on the head while resting under an apple three. This gave him a breakthrough to understand the effect that gravity has on a body with a specific mass. But now, I start thinking on the following:  what it would had happened if instead of an apple he was hit by a mango?, or by a guaba?, a banana perhaps?. A question a bit pedantic but also valid from my stand point. And going a step forward and using the same reasoning that helped to develop some of the laws that the anecdote above provoked, I would think that if he would had been hit by a different fruit he would had understood something different. All this for the action/ reaction principle. Although thinking hard, and making a thorough analysis the answer seems to be easy. Being hit by a mango, a guaba, or a banana we would have had to be a Venezuelan citizen.
 

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