Samarth,
I want to tell you about Fulcrum in this email.
You remember the stories about Archimedes "Eureka". How he ran naked on the streets of Rome. The same Archimedes once said: "Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world." Amazing, isn't it. Archimedes was a brilliant scientist. The earth is so heavy and yet he thought that he could move it. But how? Was he serious when he said that?
Yes he was serious, and yes even you can move a really heavy object like a really huge boulder. 10 or even 100 times heavier than yourself. Here's how it works. You have been on seesaw right?
I want to tell you about Fulcrum in this email.
You remember the stories about Archimedes "Eureka". How he ran naked on the streets of Rome. The same Archimedes once said: "Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world." Amazing, isn't it. Archimedes was a brilliant scientist. The earth is so heavy and yet he thought that he could move it. But how? Was he serious when he said that?
Yes he was serious, and yes even you can move a really heavy object like a really huge boulder. 10 or even 100 times heavier than yourself. Here's how it works. You have been on seesaw right?
See the small guy he really can lift the big guy, but only if the length of the seesaw on his side is large enough to counter weigh the weight of the fat guy. See this picture below.
The small ball is able to lift the big ball because the length of the seesaw on its end of seesaw is larger compared to the seesaw length on the side of the big ball. So if the length of lever on your side of seesaw is 10 times the length on the other side, you can lift 10 times your weight. If it is 100 time you will be able to lift 100 times your weight.
Your weight is around 25 Kilograms. Do you know what is the weight of earth? How long of a lever you will need?
The middle triangular shaped object is called Fulcrum.
Love,
Papa
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