I'm sure there's a pretty reasonable explanation for this, ie since all the blood has been pushed to your head and that most people don't stand perfectly straight the gravitational force acts like a torque, hence a small horizontal component is taken from the vertical causing the scales to miss calculate. But hell I have no idea, might have to give this a try.
Miss Calculate. Sounds hot.
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Personally, if ever it's true that it works, I would go with Salty on that one, an unequal repartition of blood falsifying the scale'S result for a handful of minutes at best, I really doubt that someone's losing weight for real with that technique, especially as it is mostly the blood that would cause such decreasing.
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I dont know,its strange however you look at it; Usually material thinking goes along with Newtons laws and if thats the case how can you trick a constant downward force into thinking it isnt there?
Or in other words how could shifting your weight of blood cells into your head that is still a dead weight on the top of a pair of scales vary the weight?
A torque could, because thats the rotational force about a pivot (rather than a simple up down vector), a normal person would have a lower center of gravity. But since this blood has been forced to the upper portion of your body, your centre of gravity shifts upwards increasing the effect of the torque.
YB, I wish I had a teacher like that![]()
That's not actually a force per say, more of a "pseudo" force, caused by the inertia of your body, making it feel like your being pushed outwards. The actual force vectors are directly ahead of you and at the center of the curve that you are traveling, if that makes sense. Finally my physics is coming in handy
But yeah that's basically it, plus since the overall force change would be hardly noticeable to you while standing on the scales. So it's actually a pretty sweet way to lose a little bit extra weight if your needing a slight amount.
Edit: I do love your point of views Andre, I don't think saddo's would be the same without it. I'm always intrigued by what you have to say, makes me want to learn the deeper things in this life![]()
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