If a plate falls from an even higher height, it just doesn't break into two. It shatters unless there's some other sort of structural aspect to it like safety glass. All i'm saying is that, if it's higher, it gains more kinetic energy because you gave it more gravitational potential energy. And by the time it hits the ground, it has much more energy to bake, to break the plate with. There it is. So that's why things break when they fall. Or i'm saying, ok, that's at t. I have to say, once again, i'm impressed ta tar.
What is a wormhole, really? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore things you thought you knew about the physics of falling objects, white noise, and wormholes. Why do things break when they fall?
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