On Feb 28, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Rene Gollent wrote:
To be blunt, this entire discussion seems rather silly to me. If one
wants to be pedantic, none of these replacement analogues accurately
describe the behavior either (for instance, last I checked, an actual
spring that can compress to zero width doesn't exist), so what's the
point? Replacing one imperfect analogy for another is an improvement
how?