I wish they’d release all data for currentMinusX years ago.
There could be so much fun playing with that data. Could make an accurate iRacing model, could compare teams historical downforce levels, could make tiny 3D models to paint
There could be so much fun playing with that data. Could make an accurate iRacing model, could compare teams historical downforce levels, could make tiny 3D models to paint
A normal motorcycle owner's manual is almost 100% propaganda by weight.
it's basically legalese regarding injury, legalese regarding warranty type stuff, a few specificaitons, a bit of sort of fantasy maintenance which mostly segways into... "contact a dealer", then lists dealers
In comparison the road-racing honda manual talked about reality. written by engineers, not lawyers.
For example, I recall it told you how to gear the bike for different speeds (the kinds that would lose your license, wallet and prospects on the street)
It also had carb (yes) settings for different track temperatures and all the maintenance intervals were in hours of use.
I think this kind of stuff is a goldmine, and can really educate.
I've been recently thinking over a problem how to prevent squat on hub motor powered motorcycles/scooters.
I would appreciate to know you think.
Example: http://www.geersgonewild.com/z1000/Manuals/2007_Z1000.pdf
It doesn't make sense to make all data public when there might be something the FIA or other teams didn't know about and might be useful in the future.
F1 is all about living on the edge of what's allowed by the rules, and more often than not crossing that line and hoping not to get caught by the FIA. There's a fantastic interview with Ecclestone, Withing and Piquet (1) where they reminisce the olden days and have a laugh admitting their Brabham car was so illegal they would have been disqualified by the FIA had they knew that. 2019 Ferrari had an amazing engine and then they got caught doing tricks with the fuel sensors.
That would level the playing field a bit and, I guess, limit the amount of bending the rules (even if the FIA would give amnesty on any infringements found, which it probably should do)
F1 is a media circus, not a sport and 'fair' and 'level playing field' are things that are not on the books unless they happen to drive up the bottom line.
I actually posted earlier that F1 is a "circus"... I agree. It is however a Very Real Sport insofar as the drivers are World Class Elite Athletes... especially the few who can run at the front.
The minimum amount of energy to flip a bit at the temperature of the cosmic background radiation, converted to equivalent mass via E=MC^2, is minuscule. (The mass of a black hole with one bit of entropy at its surface is also minuscule.) So any data worth storing is literally worth several orders of magnitude more than its weight in gold (assuming the gold and the data are weighed under the same gravitational acceleration).
http://scottkurowski.com/massbit/index.htm
Edit: apparently people are taking my response as being more snarky than I intended. I just find it interesting that bits actually have mass. Information is incredibly expensive on a per-mass basis.
I immediately knew what the comment would be the moment I posted it but it's 6AM so I didn't bother being more precise.
There's probably an information-theoretic framework to calculate the value of the data but who cares (Answer: Me, but again 6AM).
Photons have no resting mass, but my understanding that they still distort spacetime. It's not only mass that generates gravity. We're talking about weight, and it's mass-eneregy that warps spacetime/generates gravity.[0]
My understanding is that none of the virtual interactions in the Feynman path integral for that photon traveling through spacetime (such as spontaneously becoming a particle-antiparticle pair) affect the far-field gravitational field generated by the photon.
Also, 99% of the mass of your body is not electrons and quarks, but the binding energy between quarks. The mass of a proton is ~938 MeV/C^2, but the masses of its quarks sum to about 9 MeV/C^2. The rest of the proton's mass is the binding energy of the quarks. You get a similar ratio for the neutron. The electron's resting mass is roughly 0.5 MeV/C^2.
I think the Higgs mechanism is responsible for the rest mass of quarks, leptons, and neutrinos, but the majority of mass in atoms is due to nuclear binding energy, not the Higgs mechanism.
Though, my formal physics education didn't go beyond Freshman year E&M, so I could be way off.
[0] https://van.physics.illinois.edu/QA/listing.php?id=28195