Theoretically if you tape a piece of toast butter side up, to the back of a cat would it create anti-gravity?

Question

I know that is a really starnge question but i'm very very bored =]

Answer 1

haha funny you ask, i did a theoretical calculation a while back while i was bored, and i came up with it would hover about 4 feet off of the ground

haha great minds think alike ;)

Answer 2

Some people jokingly maintain that the experiment will produce an anti-gravity effect. They propose that as the cat falls towards the ground, it will slow down and start to rotate, eventually reaching a steady state of hovering a short distance from the ground while rotating at high speed as both the buttered side of the toast and the cat’s feet attempt to land on the ground.[1] This, however, would require the energy that keeps them rotating and hovering to come from the gravitational energy expended in the system's fall; otherwise it would violate the Law of Conservation of Energy.

Another response is that the cat will land on its feet, and immediately roll over on its back. This, however, means that the cat's feet were stronger than the toast's buttered side insofar as its attraction to the ground, but once on the ground the buttered toast's attraction overpowered the cat's feet. This would give rise to another question: which is stronger, the cat's movement to land on its feet or the toast's butter-side attraction to the ground? The reverse could also be true – the toast lands first buttered side down, and then the cat rolls onto its feet. (However, both scenarios would require the assumption that the cat did not suffer a major injury upon landing.)

Dr. H

Answer 3

Actually they would both fall and at the exact instant before they were to hit the ground, they would start to flip around. It would begin slowly, but then the angular momentum of the system would increase. The cat and toast would then spin so fast, that it would suck all energy from its surrounding area as to not violate the law of conservation of energy. Also, according to Relativity any object containing mass that approaches the speed of light will increase in mass. Since Newton's law of gravitation states that two massive bodies exert a gravitational pull that is proportional to their masses, but inversely proportional the the distance of their centers squared, the whole cat-toast contraption will pull all matter towards it until they stick, thus increasing the mass. This continues until the whole cat-toast-mass contraption is so massive that the gravitational field has an escape velocity which surpasses the speed of light. Once this occurs, you get a black hole that gobbles up everything that goes near it and then spews out Hawking radiation until it evaporates.

Answer 4

No. Your 2 difficulty-unfastened axioms are incorrect. Cats do no longer continuously land feet 1st, although they do have greater beneficial physique administration than an olympic gymnast. be conscious even gymnasts now and lower back land on their butt. Likewise, cats can and do land on something different than their feet, although no longer very frequently. The torque of the butter on the toast isn't adequate to over potential the physique administration of the cat ===> Cat nonetheless lands feet 1st, in maximum situations. contained in terms of the butter on the toast: we want basically upload adequate counter-torque (like the cat) for the toast to land butter side up. it particularly is sparkling if we placed jelly on the different edge of the toast. if so the toast lands jelly side down because of the fact makes a miles better mess to sparkling up.

Answer 5

No, the Universe is an ordered, clearly defined state with the odd bit, here and there, currently not understood at present. Any experimentation that confuses the Universe will result in denial by the continuum (anything from a puff of smoke, temporal shifts, objects disappearing, etc) or, sometimes, tiny tears in its fabric which will eventually build to a huge rent through which reality will vanish.
Don't mess with the sanity of the Universe.

Answer 6

Not exactly.

This experiment has to be understood in terms of cat/butter duality. The system can be thought of as a cat or as buttered bread, but not both at the same time. So after you drop the cat/butter system, it exists in an overlapping wave state. In landing, though, you are forced to take a measurement, so the wave function collapses and only the cat or buttered aspect is realized.

Answer 7

The cat would land on its feet. But then the efforts of the cat to lick the toast would cause it to slide round the to its belly, and the cat would sit down, resulting in the toast impacting the floor butter side down.

Answer 8

I've read about this before and I think someone said that the cat is heavy anyway so it would hit the ground. They said the toast and the cat have to be the same weight

Answer 9

Wouldn't the cat flip itself over in mid air trying to lick the butter??

Answer 10

When you drop it, right? :)

Only if the toast weighed the same as a cat, so you might try it sometime with some really heavy grainy bread, and a very small kitten.