Mar 18, 2023

So they made an astonishing assumption - that the peak stress wouldn't be significantly greater than the average over a relatively large area. And they had no basis for making that assumption. Couldn't they at least have tried measuring it across a tiny region before deciding that it wasn't appropriate? I wonder if someone might in fact have done so, seen how the curve peaked and said, "that can't possibly be right".

Roland Davis
Roland Davis

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Aspiring polymath (been aspiring for a long time). Lover of science, maths, literature, language, history, humanity, reason and kindness, follow when followed

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