Crisp-packet blowing across St Mark’s square

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One of the JC’s famous experiments, designed to illustrate the basic hopelessness of basic physics to calculate any practical values at all. Even basic ones. The JC’s assistant actually went to St Mark’s square to demonstrate, but it was a bit underwhelming.