On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Andy Farnell padawan12@obiwannabe.co.ukwrote:
On Mon, 9 May 2011 07:08:18 -0400 Billy Stiltner billy.stiltner@gmail.com wrote:
Now imagine a whammy bar fixed with the smoothest bearings and axle known. Now imagine the atomic structure of the axle and bearing. Isn't the whammy bar going to stop at little steps at the flat spots where any 2 atoms of the bearings line up with any 2 atoms of the axle? Would this not be discrete.
If the whammy was long, a finite, discrete change of angle would make the end of the bar move several inches. Since it could not exist in any position between two discrete angles the end would have to move instantaneously (infinite velocity) between two positions in space.
This would lead to sore fingers.
I didn't think it through very well.