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Physics question (slightly off-topic)

2 CronoDAS 12 December 2011 05:53AM

There's probably a better place to ask this question, but I don't know what it is. That being said...

Which will go further if a batter manages to hit it with a baseball bat: a baseball thrown to the batter at 90 miles per hour or one thrown at 60 miles per hour?

Off-topic Thread

4 MBlume 11 March 2011 01:14AM

We used to have a monthly off-topic thread for stuff rationalists might like to talk about that really has no bearing on rationality. Here's a new one.

 

ETA: Original off-topic thread

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

-1 Kevin 28 September 2010 12:12PM

The other most famous zen koan, has a distinct and correct answer that is not mu. In the same way that the answer to "what is the sound of two hands clapping?" is to perform an action, the answer to this koan is an action. While there is an endless amount of deconstruction that you can do once you have the answer, the correct answer itself is not deconstruction, but a simple answer.

I'm surprised at how rare knowledge of the answer of this koan is when it's easy to find the answer by Googling "what is the sound of one hand clapping?". I wonder why the answer to the mu koan seems to be so much more widespread than the answer to this koan, when the one hand clapping koan is even more popular in the West than the mu koan. Please don't post answers that come from Google in this thread without spoiler warnings.