flamingdonkey
flamingdonkey t1_ja6co3j wrote
Reply to comment by Nonner_Party in Last night I had a dream that I was weightless.. by Response-Cheap
Weight is determined by multiplying mass by gravity. So if mass is 0, weight must also always be 0. The converse isn't necessarily true, though, because you could be weightless, but still have mass as long as gravity is 0. But actually, this is technically impossible, since the gravitational force is diminished over distance but still never reaches exactly 0. However the 0 may not mean an absence of gravitational forces, but the net force of all of them being 0. This too seems only possible in theory, though. So if something is truly weghtless in nature, the mass must be 0. But this isn't about nature; the joke refers to a dream where the laws of physics don't really apply anyway. And the word "weightless" usually refers to gravity not being able to be felt, not actually a force of 0. So in conclusion, I ruined the joke.
flamingdonkey t1_j20zh0w wrote
Reply to comment by kaiwulf in If Jesus was real they wouldn't call it the crucifixion. by yomommafool
Yeah, but usually an r/jokes mod will post those reports in the comments to make fun of them and state that they aren't removing it.
flamingdonkey t1_j20z2fj wrote
Reply to comment by abumchuk in If Jesus was real they wouldn't call it the crucifixion. by yomommafool
"They would call it a crucifact."
flamingdonkey t1_j20pxuz wrote
Did the mods seriously remove this???
flamingdonkey t1_ja6ekcf wrote
Reply to comment by Milnoc in Last night I had a dream that I was weightless.. by Response-Cheap
If you have zero mass, then you do have zero weight, but the converse is not true. You could have no weight because the net forces of gravity acting on you all equal zero and in that case you could still have mass.