Saturday, January 26, 2008

Make way for the Chinese


Last week Sunday I went to the Shanghai circus and it was a trip! I couldn't take pictures because I didn't have a camera but this one is of them from off the web. All the stuff that they did was really mind bottling (blades of glory is totally legit) and it had a lot to do with physics. The main thing that I saw there was center of mass. They balanced soooooooooooo much stuff. Like you know the number of o's I just put in the word so? This one girl balanced more chairs than that. Yes, but anyway, they could balance all of those things on top of one another because the center of mass was always supported. Just like in this picture, the center of mass is within the support area, the bottom chair. Well i must say that was a crazy experience, but since we know physics, i bet we could do all that stuff. We just need to learn how to throw things with our feet, balance plates, and ride unicyles. Then we're good to go.