{"id":7674,"date":"2025-12-02T21:17:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:33:09","slug":"buttered-cat-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/buttered-cat-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttered Cat Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7676\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/buttered-cat-paradox\/butteredcat\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7676\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7676\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ButteredCat-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Buttered Cat ParadoxCat with Slice of Buttered Bread on back - Spinning Rapidly - Levitating in mid-air !\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ButteredCat-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ButteredCat-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ButteredCat.jpg 966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Buttered Cat Paradox<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Buttered-Cat Paradox is a fascinating experiment in levitation.<\/p>\n<p>You know how cats always land on their feet? And how a dropped slice of buttered bread always lands butter-side down?<\/p>\n<p>So when you attach slice of buttered bread to a Cat&#8217;s back &#8211; what do you think happens?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because the Buttered Bread to the Ground Force (BBttG) is roughly equal to the Cat Feet First Force (CFFF) &#8212; the cat with buttered bread levitates in mid air &#8211; spinning rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>(BBttG &#8211; CFFF) ~ zero<\/p>\n<p>Up to a point, you can increase the levitation height by adding more butter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AMAZING!!! Buttered cat paradox MUST SEE!!!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NP5gu6sS5ag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PS For those who haven&#8217;t figured it out yet &#8211; This is a Spoof<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buttered-Cat Paradox is a fascinating experiment in levitation. You know how cats always land on their feet? And how a dropped slice of buttered bread always lands butter-side down? So when you attach slice of buttered bread to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/buttered-cat-paradox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[444,445,442,443],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-science","tag-cat","tag-conflict","tag-humor","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7681,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions\/7681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}