05-16-2003, 11:48 PM
Where Morpheus asks Neo,"You think that's air you're breathing?"
>Jumping onto a tuck that is moving means that you were initially moving at 10 mph then instantaneously began to move at 65 mph. There is a force associated with this, and it would be immense.
If you accept the convention that in the matrix certain rules can be bent, and some can be broken, physics is no thang. It might have to do more with actively controlling those perceived forces that tires up ones mental muscles.
>BTW, the force in this case is the friction between the truck and the character's feet. If they are able to ignore this, why can't they ignore the force of a punch? They just seemed to choose which rules they could break and when. My main gripe is the consistancy.
Perhaps because it takes a certain amount of mental concentration to bend or break certain rules in the matrix. You might be able to bend gravity or other forces with your mind, but constant bombardment of new information (agents fists entering into face area...NOW!) can disrupt that concentration, and consistency.
But hey that's only my take on it.
>Jumping onto a tuck that is moving means that you were initially moving at 10 mph then instantaneously began to move at 65 mph. There is a force associated with this, and it would be immense.
If you accept the convention that in the matrix certain rules can be bent, and some can be broken, physics is no thang. It might have to do more with actively controlling those perceived forces that tires up ones mental muscles.
>BTW, the force in this case is the friction between the truck and the character's feet. If they are able to ignore this, why can't they ignore the force of a punch? They just seemed to choose which rules they could break and when. My main gripe is the consistancy.
Perhaps because it takes a certain amount of mental concentration to bend or break certain rules in the matrix. You might be able to bend gravity or other forces with your mind, but constant bombardment of new information (agents fists entering into face area...NOW!) can disrupt that concentration, and consistency.
But hey that's only my take on it.