[DevNet]

Why do you keep ragging on tpanther about stuff he never said or meant?

I really can't believe you said that.

[js1138]

Why would you have trouble believing metmom would say that? I find it rather like the former FReeper who argued for days that a circle is not an ellipse and that 1^720 is a really big number. It's kind of interesting how this discussion evolved. I started by saying that displacement measures volume, not weight or mass or body fat. It was a simple statement of fact. A clarification.

Now if the opposition knew anything, he might have responded, as Swordmaker did, that displacement can indirectly measure weight. He might also have pointed out, as I eventually did, that the body fat determination requires both weight and volume.

It's kind of amusing that we now have the assertion that Newton was wrong. Well, of course Newton's formulas fail under extreme conditions. All scientific laws are limited to a range of conditions.

But I find it a bit ironic that the use of body immersion to measure weight fails for a significant number of people -- those whose body density is so great that they cannot float. One doesn't have to approach the speed of light to find the limits of this procedure.