Statements or words in our English Language that make it confusing...

[Insta-Gator]

If a say something and the gf isn't around, am I still wrong? Yes, as soon as she is informed of your statement. The law of reactive, precursor consequences.

I could go on and on

Please go on ....

 

[reo]

Why is it you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?

Ron

 

[Scott T C]

if air is vacated from one location to another, it will indeed create a vacuum. The laws of physics/nature will try to replace that space with anything available. When you "suck" on a straw you vacate the space within the straw and it is replaced by whatever is on the other end of the straw. I.E. to vacate => vacuum => suck

When you move air from one location to another, it is moving from High Pressure to Low Pressure. It the laws of Physics which state this.

When you "suck" on a straw you vacate the space within the straw and it is replaced by whatever is on the other end of the straw. I.E. to vacate => vacuum => suck

When you "suck" on a straw, you create a Low Pressure environment in your mouth and the straw; the Higher Ambient Pressure of the atmosphere around the liquid in your drink then actually AND litterally forces the liquid up the straw into your mouth. (Once again...laws of Physics at work.) No "suction" involved."

It is simply a Low Pressure area's fluid or gas being replaced by a Higher Pressure fluid or gas to try to create an equilibrium.

Equilibriums are basically best described from Newton’s Laws of Physics.

Hope that explains it better.

Trust me...I argued with my flight instructor (the collegiate portion) and a Physics Professor in regards to this till I finally realized that it is all based off of pressures; not technically speaking a "suction".

 

[Insta-Gator]

Yep, that's much better ... nature thinks vacuums suck.

 

[Scott T C]

Yep, that's much better ... nature thinks vacuums suck.

You don't have to get "smart" about it.

I am telling you the facts. A vacuum creates a Low Pressure inside itself which causes the High Pressure (Higher than inside the Vacuum) in the carpet or on the floor's surface to rush into the vacuum. This rush of air from the High Pressure environment to the Low Pressure environment pulls dirt and dust in with it. Henceforth, creating the Vacuum. We just say it has more suction to explain it to the masses of the world. In advertising...it is the simplest message that sells the product...not a lecture on how it works. People don't need (or really want) to know how items "work"...they just want them to work the way they are supposed to.

I have provided you with the Dictionary explanation of the word Vacuum.

Remember...my whole bit was that vacuums don't actually suck anything...it is all based off of pressures which "toss" the dirt up from the floor into the vacuum itself.

vac·u·um   /ˈvækyum, -yuəm, -yəm/
[vak-yoom, -yoo-uhm, -yuhm] Show IPA
noun, plural vac·u·ums for 1, 2, 4–6, vac·u·a  /ˈvækyuə/
[vak-yoo-uh]
for 1, 2, 4, 6; adjective; verb
–noun
1. a space entirely devoid of matter.
2. an enclosed space from which matter, especially air, has been partially removed so that the matter or gas remaining in the space exerts less pressure than the atmosphere ( opposed to plenum).
3. the state or degree of exhaustion in such an enclosed space.

There you go....Deffinition #2 explains exactly what I am referring to. Would you like to debate it further?

 

[Scott T C]

There is no such thing as "light": The Dark Sucker Theory of Bell Labs...

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]For years it has been believed that electric bulbs emitted light.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]However recent information from Bell Labs has proven otherwise.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Electric bulbs don't emit light, they suck dark. Thus, they now call these bulbs dark-suckers. The dark theory, according to a Bell Labs spokesman, proves the existence of dark, that dark has mass heavier than that of light, and that dark is faster than light. The basis of the dark-sucker theory is that electric bulbs suck dark.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Take for example the dark-suckers in the room where you are.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]There is less dark right next to them than there is elsewhere. The larger the dark sucker, the greater its capacity to suck dark.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dark-suckers in a parking lot have a much greater capacity to suck dark than the ones in this room.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]As with all things, dark suckers don't last forever. Once they are full of dark, they can no longer suck. This is proven by the black spot on a full dark sucker. A new candle has a white wick. You will notice after the first use the wick turns black, representing all the dark which has been sucked into it. If you hold a pencil next to the wick of an operating candle, the tip will turn black because it got in the way of the dark flowing into the candle. Unfortunately, these primitive dark suckers have a very limited range.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]There are also portable dark suckers. The bulbs in these can't handle all the dark by themselves, and must be aided by a dark storage unit. When the dark storage unit is full, it must either be emptied or replaced before the portable dark sucker can be operated again. Dark has mass. When dark goes into a dark sucker, friction from this mass generates heat. Thus, it is not wise to touch an operating dark sucker. Candles present a special problem, as the dark must travel in the solid wick instead of through glass. Thus, it can be very dangerous to touch an operating candle. Dark is also heavier than light. If you swim deeper and deeper, you notice it gets darker and darker. When you reach a depth of approximately fifty feet, you are in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to the bottom of the lake and the lighter light floats to the top. The immense power of the dark can be utilized to man's advantage. We can collect the dark that has settled to the bottom of the lakes and push it through turbines which generate electricity and help push dark to the ocean, where it maybe safely stored.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In conclusion, Bell Labs stated that dark suckers make all our live much easier. So, the next time you look at an electric bulb, remember that it is indeed a dark sucker! [/FONT]

This made me remember another tid-bit.

Ice Cubes don't actually cool the drink off. They absorb the heat from the drink (equilibriums at work again) bringing their temperature up to the equilibrium of the drink. The absorption of the heat from the beverage makes it a lower temp, henceforth cooler.

 

[Jaydubya]

Yep, that's much better ... nature thinks vacuums suck.

if nature abhors a vaccum why did she make so much of it?

 

[vladimir]

Statement 3) Our vacuum has the most suction.
Explanation: Vacuums do not "suck". What happens is within the vacuum a low pressure is created by the motor/fan combination. This low pressure creates a pressure difference between the higher pressure within the carpet (or in the layer of air above your flooring) causing the dirt to literally "leap" into the vacuum to equalize the pressure difference...

...which is the definition (2) of "suction":

suc·tion   
[suhk-shuhn] Show IPA
–noun
1. the act, process, or condition of sucking.
2. the force that, by a pressure differential, attracts a substance or object to the region of lower pressure.
3. the act or process of producing such a force.

It's not clear to me why it bothers you that people use "suction" to mean what it is defined to mean.

 

[Scott T C]

It is what we have accepted as a society...HENCE my OP and O.Topic.

Why is it so difficult to understand the correlation of what I state and my original topic for this thread???

My statement is/was that vacuums don’t actually “suck” anything…proved by what I have stated.

Yes, you could say that suction is the same as what I state...sure, it still comes down to pressures.

----
Addition
----

I just thought of something while cleaning up the kitchen.

When someone tells me something flies, I don't just look at it and go..Oh...Ok...It flies.

I look at it and go: Why? How? ...I want to know what makes it do what they said it does.

I am a science buff, loved taking every science course I could: Biology, Ecology, Physics, Chemistry, etc. I want to know why things work the way they work. Not just someone telling me they work "that" way and going. Ok...good enough for me.

Maybe that helps explain my reasoning?

Guess you could call me a geek...and I am fine with that. The more I learn...the MORE i want to learn about everything I can learn about.

My brain is on overload every day...that's how I like it. If something isn't challenging for me I get bored REALLY easy. Then I basiclly get ADHD, lol. I just get frustrated and find ways to make myself not frustrated...generally to the annoyance of past bosses.

This is why I want to do Commercial Diving...it will be a challange every day.

 

[vladimir]

Maybe that helps explain my reasoning?

Not at all, but thanks for posting.