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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar
The context of the book and its author are also interesting.
Dick Barnard has a strong background in aviation aerodynamics, where as he says, it's much easier to use equations to make predictions. When we were working on my book, he was always very cautious about advancing theories about what was actually happening in car aero. He used to say to me words to the effect:
"Tell them what is happening, not why it is happening. They (our readers) don't need to know why it is happening, and often it will be too complex for them to understand anyway."
I often remember those words when I read Aerohead's theories - the ones that usually don't match actual, measured, reality.
From what Dick - and also Dr Wolf of Porsche - have said to me, it's very easy in car aero to underestimate the complexity of what is actually going on. It's like ignition timing in car engines - you can theroise all you like but the interactions are so complex that timing charts are still constructed by testing.
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1) Your mother chews castor beans on the left side of her mouth and dies.
2) Your father chews castor beans on the right side of his mouth and dies.
3) Your sister chews castor beans on both sides of her mouth and dies.
4) Your brother chews castor beans only with his incisors and dies.
5) Your other brother 'masticates' castor beans in a mortar and pestle, swallows the mash and dies.
6) Ad infinitum.
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At some point, a theory about not ingesting poison takes on an air of practicality.