Pirate Island
Time to tell you about my last journey. I became stranded on a pirate island in Grid4Us.
And yes, at first I was a bit in fear :0))). But as I have cooked a meal for the pirates, they have allowed me to have a look at their wonderful ships.
Have you ever thought about, why a ship does swim in a virtual world and why you do sink on the ground of the Oceans? Well in our real world Archimedes has long ago given answers to these questions.
“The most widely known anecdote about Archimedes tells of how he invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape. According to Vituvius, a new crown in the shape of a laurel wreath had been made for King Hiero II, and Archimedes was asked to determine whether it was of solid gold, or whether silver had been added by a dishonest goldsmith. Archimedes had to solve the problem without damaging the crown, so he could not melt it down into a regularly shaped body in order to calculate its density.”
“While taking a bath, he noticed that the level of the water in the tub rose as he got in, and realized that this effect could be used to determine the volume of the crown. For practical purposes water is incompressible, so the submerged crown would displace an amount of water equal to its own volume. By dividing the weight of the crown by the volume of water displaced, the density of the crown could be obtained. This density would be lower than that of gold if cheaper and less dense metals had been added. Archimedes then took to the streets naked, so excited by his discovery that he had forgotten to dress, crying ” Eureka!” – “I have found it!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
Would Archimedes come into a virtual world, he would find similar physical laws. But here doesn’t act the same powers. Here the physics is implemented in the program. Who knows, maybe it is similar in our real world. We probably never could find it out.
Diabolus Svenska, the creator of this impressive ships has made with me a little tour through the Megasim. His ship not only looks really great, it also does really float and sail. So an exiting day does end, but sure I will come back and search for the sunken treasure.
Greetings
Tesira
March 29th, 2010 at 8:57 am
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