I'm not sure that I understand Heisenberg's 'Uncertainty Principle' ... but I reckon that the Gravitons are hiding from us - as they think we won't measure-up if we get our hands on them .. Can you string along with that? There is a great video explaining this "stuff" ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-HF5XKeK8Q
That shows us all about "CWANTUM FIZZICKS" ...
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Science fact is fact - but there REALLY IS a load of old bollocks out there about just about any subject you can think of .. especially guns.
We all need to practice Critical Thinking and judgement based on knowledge.
Over & over I hear some "Reporter" talking garbage on a topic they know NOTHING about - or I read a story by an "expert" who just seems to be repeating something she read online that itself was just copied from somebody else who's mate told her it was a fact back in the '90's' when she was on a boy's night-out.
There are so many 'Gun Control" experts who know NOTHING about guns or shooting them - other than "movie" nonsense they saw when they were a kid.
- One retired joker I know who has NEVER held a gun in his whole life - refuses to touch one because they are EVIL works of the devil .. but despite that he eats killed meat and approves of armed police and trained military killers.
- Another example is when "Crime Reporters" (some new kid who's uncle owns the business) talks about firearms CARTRIDGES as being "bullets" ..
Yes - Well, just maybe - "Bigger is Better" in general terms - but a bigger more powerful firearm is absolutely heavier to carry - louder & more painful to shoot, more expensive to use, and likely much more difficult to hit the target with - which is what the point of having a gun is all about .. HITTING only THE INTENDED TARGET.
In the 1800's - before anyone thought of Ballistic Gelatin - they used penetration of pine boards to compare ballistic performance ..
"The first frontiersmen back in the 1840's looked at the 48 grain round ball and 14 grain powder charge normal for a Baby Dragoon (We class these with Colt Model 1849) and maybe thought, “Give up my Bowie knife for that? Yeah, right.” But - the tiny .31 surprised us in actual tests. From 15 feet, that charge of Swiss FFFg blackpowder pushed the 48 grain .323″ diameter ball to 760 fps. It also lodged in the third pine board. Maybe - just maybe, a card table could stop that one, but I wouldn’t count on it. - And neither should you."
Any Deformable "Soft:" Lead Ball That can Penetrate Three Inches of Timber
Is Going To Cause Life Threatening Damage.
Soft Lead used to cast round ball 'bullets' is still BLOODY HARD in reality - and it is HEAVY. - Pure lead is well suited as a ballistic projectile. - It's density gives it MASS and more mass means more 'kinetic energy'. - But consider this ... More energy is desireable ONLY SO FAR AS IT DELIVERS IN THE TARGET - If it misses the target that is a FAIL and if it penetrates through the target and carries on wastefully down range - that is another fail .. a DANGEROUS failure too. Not every target has a 'backstop'.
Any lead ball flying at around 1-500 + feet per second can be fatal. - Typical black powder pistol velocities range 500-800 fps.
Lead Roman Sling Bullets Dug-up in Scotland
A quote * - Just to prove that I am totally wrong ..."That winter (1881) I got lung fever and nearly died coughing. I coughed up a small bullet that was shot into me in 1880, and after that I soon got well
... I always carried a gun because it was the only way I knew how to fight. As Pier La Grange used to say, "If God Almighty'd intended me to fight like a dog, he'd have given me long teeth and claws."
- Face it - Two thousand years ago Roman warriors threw lead slingshot projectiles at their victims because they killed.
I can draw your attention to a technical tale written by Mike Venturino, someone who does know plenty about shooting ..
- I always get a laugh from knowing that the old 31 Calibers were actually "32s" - the 36 Calibers were actually "38's" and our current "38"s are really .35"s - while today's 44 MAGNUM bullets are factually .429 inch caliber.
- It gets even more ridiculous reading that modern "32"s are weak underpowered mouseguns - when they measure exactly the same diameter as a "DEADLY" Russian AK47 bullet, and those old British 303 rounds of two world wars that harvested many thousands of Red Deer for decades in New Zealands bush.
.. "All piss and wind"? .. Obviously NOT - but the 44 Magnum gets it's *POWER* from high pressures and velocities, not it's .429" size.
* The excellent book quoted is 'WE POINTED THEM NORTH' by E C 'Teddy Blue' Abbot - I recommend it to those of you who can read ..
- Actually ... for any of you seriously open to "BOOK LARNING" - I go back time & again to a superb paperback reprint 'GUNS ON THE EARLY FRONTIERS' by Carl P Russell
Full of facts and stories - Even the chapter notes are brilliant reading.
Marty K.
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