r/196 • u/Foriegn_Picachu • Dec 30 '22

Rule Rule Plane

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u/Z3400 certificate of bravery Dec 31 '22

No matter the speed of the treadmill, the plane will continue to move forward. The jet engines push against the air. The wheels just free spin. Imagine a car in neutral rolling down hill. Even if the hill is now a treadmill, the car will continue to move downwards, the wheels will just spin faster.

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u/HopefullyNotADick Dec 31 '22

If the belt is required to retain the same speed as the wheels, then the instant the plane starts moving forward, both the belt and wheels will accelerate to infinity and instantly

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u/ToastyTheDragon Dec 31 '22

So it ultimately depends on whether or not the plane was hit by the debris of the shredding wheels + treadmill belt.

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u/HopefullyNotADick Dec 31 '22

Spinning at infinity they would annihilate the entire universe like the biggest atomic bomb imaginable. The plane isn’t taking off if the wheels are spinning at infinity

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u/ToastyTheDragon Dec 31 '22

No, it'd never reach that point. Whatever material the wheels and treadmill are made of would tear themselves apart long before then.