What if life really is like a rollercoaster
People say that life is like a rollercoaster, but here's what I know about rollercoasters thanks to Mr. Dancho
The car is pulled to the top, slowly. When it reaches the top, it stops and v=0. After that short time, the car plunges down and potential energy changes into kinetic energy. What happens next is the part that interest me. Just like with Dancho's hotwheels cars, the rollercoaster will never be able to go as high as that initial peak. All those resistance forces we told were "negligible" aren't so in really life. Energy is lost along the way, and the rollercoaster will never have as much as at the highest first peak. The rollercoaster continues to rise, fall, flip, and turn, but never returns to its original state...
Unless we take into account that the rollercoaster car goes around the rollercoaster thousands of times, each time being pulled to the top and released... Is life really like a rollercoaster? Is there a point where nothing will ever be as good as?
The car is pulled to the top, slowly. When it reaches the top, it stops and v=0. After that short time, the car plunges down and potential energy changes into kinetic energy. What happens next is the part that interest me. Just like with Dancho's hotwheels cars, the rollercoaster will never be able to go as high as that initial peak. All those resistance forces we told were "negligible" aren't so in really life. Energy is lost along the way, and the rollercoaster will never have as much as at the highest first peak. The rollercoaster continues to rise, fall, flip, and turn, but never returns to its original state...
Unless we take into account that the rollercoaster car goes around the rollercoaster thousands of times, each time being pulled to the top and released... Is life really like a rollercoaster? Is there a point where nothing will ever be as good as?