You wont believe this

[Andre]

Yeah Im just throwing sh!t out there, wondering why myself.

I just wonder if any of them ( the physists) have done experiments such as yours concerning dead weight verses live weight?

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.

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.

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?

[Salty]

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.

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.

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

[Andre]

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.

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

Interesting, torque, eh!
A bit like if you drove around in tight circles real fast some of the downward weight would get transferred outwards.

[Salty]

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

Interesting, torque, eh!
A bit like if you drove around in tight circles real fast some of the downward weight would get transferred outwards.

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

[Andre]

Cheers mate,the deeper things in life ! I lost count of how many pits I deep'd today.

Not big only 3 to 4 but hollow and shallow 30 kt, some triple sections too couple of 4 to 5 seconds!

[Chris Nagel]

Here, try this experiment. Step onto a weight scale, and lean in any direction you'd like. If your weight goes down, then you know that your theory is right.

[Andre]

Here, try this experiment. Step onto a weight scale, and lean in any direction you'd like. If your weight goes down, then you know that your theory is right.

I dont think it would at all ,on a large platform or large digital scales but it does on the cheap two feet bathroom scales cause your weight is off the centre upright support that is under the foot plate you only have to stand wrong on thse thigs to get a variation.