Showing posts with label cartoons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cartoons. Show all posts

Saturday, October 1, 2011

The Laws of Physics Reexamined

We all know about the Laws of Physics and how they invariably govern the way the various bodies of the universe interact with one another. These laws are considered unbreakable until proven otherwise.




But are they really?


Thanks to the meticulous recordings of Warner Brothers ® characters such as Buggs Bunny,
Pepe Le Pew, and Wile E. Coyote, newer laws have been under careful review and examination.


The Cartoon Laws of Pysics


Law I) Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.


Law II) Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly, stopping the body completely.


Law III) Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction.


Law IV) The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.


Law V) All principles of gravity are negated by fear.


Law VI) As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.
This is particularly true of tooth-and-claw fights, in which a character's head may be glimpsed emerging from the cloud of altercation at several places simultaneously. This effect is common as well among bodies that are spinning or being throttled.


Law VII) Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot.


Law VIII) Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent. They can be decimated, spliced, splayed, accordion-pleated, spindled, or disassembled, but they cannot be destroyed.


Provide an example of the above laws that you have personally witnessed.
(I'm talking about what you've seen on TV, not in real life...)