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Hours of sleepless nights with a tautochrone curve or isochrone wallpapered bedroom,insomniacal determination in order to fall asleep via the results of the tautochrone problem, via wallpaper.
Wikipedia: Tautochrone curve
http://en.wikipedia...i/Tautochrone_curve No matter where you start, you always reach the bottom at the same time. [jutta, Jul 29 2011]
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I was hoping for a bed and a tautochrone and
frictionless floor myself, sliding you to the bottom
in 8 hours, no matter where you start. Maybe your
bedpost strikes a bell upon arrival? |
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A Newton's cradle tautochrone bell? |
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I think the frictionless floor might prove difficult to implement, [jutta]. |
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Depends on the descent angle; many Newtonian fluids exhibit extremely low limiting resistances, certainly not enough to significantly affect the isochronous trajectory. |
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We will award a bun for an innovative idea. |
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I read the Wiki link, and I still do not understand. Please
educate this member of the Great Unwashed. |
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Yes but for an 8 hour descent, fitted into a bedroom-sized space? |
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[bigsleep]
It's equation wallpaper. |
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Yes, Jim, but not as we know it .... |
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[bigsleep], I get that part, but I, too, fail to see the
function of applying it to my bedroom walls. |
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I'd never heard of the tautochrone curve before. I'm glad I saw this early enough in the day to get it figured out before bedtime, 'cause it *would* have kept me awake. |
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Instead of which, you'll now just have bizarre and disturbing dreams. |
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//Newton's cradle tautochrone bell// You gonna half-bake that, [skinflaps]? |
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"Ding dong"
Leslie phillips, no less. |
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ie. my kid's bedroom idea. No, seriously. |
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