Anti Gravity Machine?

Question

If a cat always lands on its feet and buttered toast always lands butter side down. Could I get a cat and attatch one piece of buttered toast butter side up to each paw of the cat then picked the cat up and dropped it would the butter side up toast and the cat paws kinda act like like poles of a magnet and repel each other leaving the cat to kinda levitate a few inches above the floor or possibly rotate constantly along its latitudinal axis thus creating an anti gravity machine?

Answer 1

hahahaahaha

u re very imaginative...

dude...seriously speaking..let us invent one ANTI GRAVITY MACHINE.....

DONE!!!!!!!!!!

c ya

Answer 2

While the paradox originated as a tongue-in-cheek combination of two bits of folk advice, it ended up creating some interesting thought experiments.

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.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.)

Answer 3

But other variables should be factored in; for instance, does the cat stop to lick the butter? Would salted or unsalted cause a difference in chemical reactions to the cat's paws? (Margarine, of course, skews all the results...)

Answer 4

Yes maybe it could be done; but why do that to a cat?

Answer 5

I think it's time for me to 'pull the plug' and go do some --serious-- Scotch drinking ☺

Doug

Answer 6

but...how can u convince a cat to do that?