>>11814583Rene Descartes was a genius. Sheldon from the BBT. He was kidnapped by the palace and sick a lot, likely because he was more aware of his fate.
He was tasked to teach the King's soldiers how to shoot the King's cannon. How much gun powder to use when the enemy was so far away. He fell into one of his fevers. Resting in bed, he looked up at a tiled ceiling. Eureka! Left and right is enemy distance. Up and down is the charge, or the angle. Any drunken French farmer could do that.
>>11816450When you integrate, you loose accuracy, because when you differentiate low level terms you take them to zero.
You're falling, that's 2.
You're were riding an escalator, that's 1.
You're were tied to a rubber band of a stretched length, that's 0.
If the rubber band's light and the escalator's slow, you can simplify through differentiation and just work with gravity.
If you just have gravity, you have unknown variables in need of input, what the escalator is doing and what rubber band you are tied to.
