Swimming in Snot

You, too, could have been one of the lucky (or was it unlucky?) volunteers to swim in a pool filled with a goo substance best described as "snot". And it was all in the name of science! This experiment was to determine if one would swim faster or slower in a substance that was twice as thick as water. Make your prediction and then read the results which proved Sir Isaac Newton wrong on this matter. But still give Newton credit for realizing that he didn't know for sure and could not prove it, so he presented both viewpoints in Principia Mathematica. Posted by Chris on 9/27/2004 01:54:00 PM :: Permalink   
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