truth of simple machines

[labelwench]

Chirality is also relevant to horses and there are a number of theories relating to why horses are either 'left-handed' or 'right-handed.'

The following are my personal observations:

First is the direction the foal is laying while in the womb, which in the mare, is not a particularly large space.

Second, the mare will train the foal to travel on one side of her, keeping her dominant side between the foal and danger.

Third, most people are right-handed.

It is an easier motion for us to climb on from the left side of the horse. Our left arm and leg are used as pivot and balance points, while the right arm pulls and the right leg travels the furthest during this motion. Our right side is dominant in positioning and balancing us through the arc and into the saddle. Our dominant side is frequently less flexible, so when traveling to the right, the horse also encounters our natural stiffness which is perceived as resistance, further restricting the rightward movement of the horse when carrying a rider.

In my experience, in this part of the world, more horses are left-sided than right-sided, and when you add an inexperienced rider, that will skew the ratio further to the left.

Some few horses are balanced in both directions. These horses are not only very athletic, they also tend to be gifted in their learning abilities. I have been selecting for these rare balanced horses for some time and by some diligence in training style, enhancing their abilities in maintaining such balance while bearing my weight in the saddle. Caramel, my current mount is such a horse, and her sister also. I am hoping this tendency comes through in the foal as well.

An interesting article by an Australian farrier on how to recognize which handedness a horse has by the shape of it's hooves. I trim my own horses and can verify his observations, having learned these things prior from a knowledgeable horseman.

http://www.horsefarrier.com.au/LeftR...ndedHorses.htm

[AntonioLao]

As a left-hander, I find it hard to learn the sports of golf and baseball without having to buy expensive left-handed clubs and gloves. I finally settled for tennis.

[labelwench]

As a left-hander, I find it hard to learn the sports of golf and baseball without having to buy expensive left-handed clubs and gloves. I finally settled for tennis.

My left-handed friends have commented on the challenges imposed on them as the world is engineered to accommodate the right-handed. One neighbor even tells of being punished in grade school in Great Britain and sent to the Principals Office for being rebellious and 'non-compliant', where she tried to explain that she was unable, literally, to write legibly with her right hand. That would have been in about 1940. Hard to comprehend such cruelty.......or maybe not, given the history of our species.

History also records a litany of brilliant left-handers, and you will be among them, Antonio, when you are able to affirm cold fusion.

[AntonioLao]

History also records a litany of brilliant left-handers

For me, the important question is whether Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein were left-hander? On the other hand, a brainless robot would not have any problem being ambidextrous.

[labelwench]

For me, the important question is whether Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein were left-hander? On the other hand, a brainless robot would not have any problem being ambidextrous.

Are you quite certain of this?

Is there not chirality or a vortex effect, or an asymmetry of field in relation to all power sources?

And what effect does the earth's gravity play in all of this interchange?

Magnetism has a disruptive effect on many things, as one will observe through the interference when placing sensitive technology in too close of proximity of the large magnets as are commonly found in large vintage stereo speakers, as one example.

[AntonioLao]

Magnetic field is fundamentally dipolar since magnetic monopoles can never be isolated by experiments. If I can give a theoretical plausible explanation of this magnetic dipolarity then the next step might be a successful implementation of cold fusion. The best I have is to quantized the space-time continuum into space-time charges of H-pluses and H-minuses such that exclusive H-pluses or H-minuses give reality to magnetic monopoles. Unfortunately, matter and energy are made of both H+ and H-.

[labelwench]

Motion.

My mind keeps coming to the realization that all is in motion, even when it does not appear to be so. The boulder, comprised of the many atoms and moelecules of the elements of it's compostion, may be inert, yet internally, all is in motion.

The human body, even when still, is pervaded by the many involuntary systems which preserve our life and existence.

To study a thing, sometimes one finds the answer by studing it's opposite.

Forgive my naivety, but do we know of a thing that is absolutely not in motion, or at least, not to the best of our understanding?

[AntonioLao]

Motion.

Again, your logic serves you right. However, we know for certain that magnetic field are always in motion but experiments cannot determine which magnetic poles this motion tends to??? That is of course without inserting a test electric charge.

[labelwench]

My mind is now running down the trail of the 'not in motion'.......

Which begs the question, if that which I seek is not in motion, and that is it's only measurable property, how then will I detect it?

We design all of our instrumentation to detect things, and we may well have measured that which we seek a thousand times, and not been aware, because we are always looking for that which we anticipate should be there, from our theory or conjecture.

Probably been found repeatedly and recorded as instrument malfunction.

A certain irony in my twisted thoughts today. I mean no disrespect to any person or discipline. This is just my platform of observation at this moment.

[AntonioLao]

if that which I seek is not in motion, and that is it's only measurable property, how then will I detect it?

Then we must trust Einstein, as he said in 1949 that absolute motion or absolute rest does not exist and cannot be measured.