Perpetual motion

[Booldawg]

If you were to strap a piece of buttered toast to a cats back and drop it out of a window, would it spin in perpetual motion due to the 2 theories that toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet?

[MarkRae]

Yes it would, right up to the moment when it hit the ground.

[heathfield]

Ahh! But which side up, Mark?

[MarkRae]

That would depend on the height of the fall, the speed of rotation and the combined weight of the cat and the slice of buttered toast.

[Davethedog]

Obviously it would end up on its side cat and toast, thus disproving both.

[Old_Geezer]

I suspect a cat will force it's will over a slice of toast.

The toast only has free reign to spin freely when not strapped to a cat, or anything else.

[Davethedog]

Put it in the same box as Schrodinger's cat then we are all correct. (sort of)

[wildwood]

Both theories are fiction so the cat will land on its tail impaling it into the ground forever and a toast-tree will eventually grow there.

[mungbeanz]

It would only work if you pushed the cat off a table. The correct height for the toast to make one half rotation. Then I think the world would implode or something.

[venator]

Perhaps CERN will set up a multi zillion euro to discover the Moggs Toasticle

[venator]

sorry - insert "experiment" as appropriate

[Booldawg]

good idea ven -at least it'll be more interesting than Schrodingers cat.

[joeblow90]

Cats hate anything stuck to them so the cat would eat the toast and then land on its feet

[ludwig]

Enough theorising. This question can only be answered by a practical experiment.

I'll report back with the results tomorrow.

[jno]

yes, just go on spinning, I expect

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