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.