Hans Wrote:
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> Trying so hard to pretend you know what you are
> talking about....here's a question for you how
> many days of snow on the ground do they have on
> the Salisbury plain - you obviously already know
> this or you wouldn't have made a claim - so tell
> us.

I guess we can add sleds on snow to the list of simple physics you don't understand. A sled's runner works by turning the surface of the ice or snow under it into water. It then glides on this water. If there is insufficient weight then the friction is very high. The ideal amount of weight is driven by ambient temperature and weight per area. Snow in this part of the world normally falls in bands that are more than 20 miles wide in the east west direction and often far more. England is very far north and often has cold weather and snow. I've never bothered to research it since it's irrelevant but I doubt the weather was much different 5000 years ago. Any difference would likely mean it was colder and dryer.

Horizontal movement from the source of the stone to Salisbury requires work primarily to overcome friction and to compensate for inefficiency involved in not being able to maintain increases in momentum due to excessive speed. It is of course possible part of the trip was made by water but again this is for most practical purposes frictionless.

You seem to be fixated on the concept of dragging stones but in point of fact it is hard to drag things even on horizontal surfaces with high friction. You can only imagine how hard it is to drag them uphill. There is no way to cheat gravity and no machine to make lifting weight more efficient. Every machine by definition increases total work. Building roads and ramps to accommodate machines is also very highly inefficient.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/05/2021 09:23PM by cladking.