Slip Switch Track

The Tardis was stuck, outwardly, in British Police box mode.

Yes, exactly, the Dr., of course.

Dictionary definition: Consist (v.i.) to be composed of: be comprised or contained in. (Oxford dictionary)

There is no entry "Consist (n)", but if we try, by mental gymnastics to create a noun form of the word we end up regarding the individual physical contents or components of an action. 8^P

The first time I read the word "consist" in a RM magazine (after circa 30 years of being a railway and model railway enthusiast) all I could come up with was "Huhh? What the hell are they on about". There's no way to get from the word to the meaning without being "in the know".

(I must admit also to having a problem in reading about "gas electrics" - what sort of gas? where are the big bags? etc)

Regards, Greg.P.

If you're going to say it's incorrect as used by US railways, use an American dictionary. Look at the noun definition of "consist" at Merriam-Webster:

"makeup or composition (as of coal sizes or a railroad train) by classes, types, or grades and arrangement"

You'd think so but most people have a real problem associating problems into the groups that they are. Most people automatically assume that the problem that they are faced with is an original problem and try to do a straightforward fix of the problem and that is where you get the rolling of the paper down the hallway instead of looking at the end and seeing that one form has the top part removed.

-- Bob May Losing weight is easy! If you ever want to lose weight, eat and drink less. Works every time it is tried!

Aside from the delightful offtopic that the word topology has created - BTW, a torus is a one hole surface and the coffee cup and the donut are the same topologically as the cup part of the coffee cup is just a minor distortion of the surface that is of no concequence for the math type. The double slip switch has a set of points and frogs on each of the tracks coming into the thing thus it is 4 turnouts, not two. A single slip switch has two turnouts as only two of the legs of the trackage have points and frogs on them.

-- Bob May Losing weight is easy! If you ever want to lose weight, eat and drink less. Works every time it is tried!

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It will probably disperse as a gas ... or freeze. If it freezes then the shape depends on how carefully you released it and what shape it was released in.

Paul

The water will not take the form of a sphere. It will in fact take the shape of an F7. Santa Fe, of course.

Mike

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That's what I was going to respond.

How about a like volume of mercury instead? Or would that "freeze" too?

Greg, in the United States we use gasoline in our cars. The 'Gas electrics' used gasoline to run the generator for the traction motors.

I guess you might call it a 'Petrol electric'. (S)

form a perfect sphere?< I read somewhere once that they were experimenting making perfect ball bearings using space. I'm going to guess you would get a perfect ball of ice.

No. They call them Tin Hares. Talk about having to be "in the know" ! Antipodean English is all about having to be "in the know"

Froggy@The wrote:>

It will freeze instantly into whatever shape it was in when released.

Oh, and a torus is a particular shape:

"A solid in the shape of a donut, formed by rotating a circle about a line in its plane without intersecting it."

Sure, it could "morph" into many other shapes, but it is then no longer a torus. Just as a sphere could morph into a cube, but it would then be a cube, not a sphere.

MacIndoe

Mike is the only one who got it (almost) right.

Mike, it would only be a Santa-Fe eff unit if that's what you wanted to see. If you wanted to see a Florida East Coast eff unit, it would be that.

Read Raychaudhuri's treatise on the subject and you will see.

For several years, I had an Internist names Hu He couldn't figure why I giggled when I asked for him...

Jim Stewart

Once read a story where one last bypass was added to the Boston Subway System, making it into a mobius strip...Does traction count?

Jim Stewart

Someone said that a coffee cup is a slightly deformed torus. Greg Procter said words to the effect "nonsense" with which I agreed. I use US Navy coffee cups which have no ear, or handle, nor any bottom or top and are therefore invlouted oblate spheres.

I ~DO~ however have a ewer which ~IS~ a torus if such a shape can legally be defined as such. It has an ear, but then so do I, however I am a Taurus, not a torus. This is distinctly different from a talus or a talon.

Actually, string theory suggests it would take the form of a multitude of engines, depenjding on which universe it was in. No, I am not a theoritical phyisist, I just slept on a motel bed last night...

James R Stewart, PhD....

I don't know why you think it would get saturated. It sat under the heat lamp for 3 weeks or so already.... Designed correctly, It can sop up one cupful of coffee while you convert the cup into a second donut...

Jim Stewart