Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Re: hooked ABs ... & angels

Oh, no! He's still alive.........

----- Original Message ----
From: Bill Polhemus <bill@polhemus.cc>
To: seaint@seaint.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 3:45:25 PM
Subject: Re: hooked ABs ... & angels

Rhkratzse@aol.com wrote:
Here we are calculating to ten decimal places how many angels can dance on the end of an anchor bolt, and then using them to fasten down a 2x4 with a way oversized hole in it (speaking of my own practice that mainly involves houses). 
I thought angels didn't weigh anything.

Hence their ability to dance on the head of the proverbial pin which has, one assumes, a rather low value for kl/r.
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