Balance
I put a fake tomato on the scales. The plate goes down. So far so good.
The lower the item drops the more it weighs, I reason. Isn’t that what Newton was about?( — a 7-year old Marta never thought, but wishes she did, because it’d make for a good story.)
I see other kids are putting cylindrical blocks on the other plate of the scales.
Well now, that’s mysterious.
I’ve already concluded most of them were morons, based on yesterday’s inability to solve for 2(2+3), but such a unified display of moronism? Suspicious.
I observe the following:
a) They are not taking the tomato off first. This makes no sense to me. How can you try to weigh two things at the same time?
b) The cylindrical blocks have numbers on them — 1kg, 0.5kg, etc. It seems we already know how much they weigh, so why weigh them again?
Unlike numbers, balance was, and remains, a tricky concept.
This has been the 100th—and the last!—story from the series of 100 words in 100 days.
Now that you’re done, why not revisit some of the old classics?
