Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Disc Compatibility?

On 3/12/2025 11:53 AM, cyclintom wrote:

On Fri Mar 7 11:40:09 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

On 3/7/2025 10:53 AM, cyclintom wrote:

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If you leaned against the door of your truck and it bent inwards, so you pulled the liner off and pushed it back out with a "clang!" would you be talking impossible metaphysical events or that you were just imagining it?

>
A person may be able to disassemble a vehicle door and apply force to a
metal door panel from the inside. If the panel was nearly flat and the
deformation was entirely elastic (which is unlikely) a dent might
possibly be pushed out. More likely, some imperfection will remain for a
body man to address.
>
A dent in a bike top tube can't be entirely elastic deformation. The
geometry won't allow that. And what magical creature could have gotten
inside your top tube and applied the necessary outward force?
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_Nobody_ is believing your story, Tom. It's literally impossible. Please
give it up.

    There you have it from the steel expert. It may happen in one case but not in another.

Mr Krygowski is right and you are mistaken.
The laws of physics are not like criminal law. They are uniform and inviolable.
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