The Bernoulli’s Principle

A huge truck swished past me and the familiar feeling returned.

*Yawns*

What feeling?

*raises the brow*

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

-Shakespeare, Othello.

Ha!

Not so long ago, when I was in my ninth grade, I used to ride back from school on my bicycle.

School was in close proximity from home(of course!).

Route was not a high-way.

It was not even a galli.

Something in between.

*sniggers at the lack*

(@reader: do fill me in with the word, if thee knows)

Okay. So where was I?

Yeah, there were times when heavier vehicles would drive by and I, who was on the bicycle, would get the feeling of being sucked into them.

To be more explicit, it felt like I would fall between the tyres (or simply side-crash into the vehicle) only to have my head crushed by the rear(which will be the derivable consequence of the fall =P ).

I think the morbidity can be traced back to the time when I was six years old and had chanced upon a freshly crushed skull with the contents all spilled over the road. The image is pretty clear in the head.

It happened for more than a couple of times and the itch rose.

So I went up to my brother, to inquire about it, secretly hoping that it would be some siblings-sharing psychological paranoia.

My eyes had brightened up after knowing about the “Bernoulli’s Principle”, a science phenomenon at practical demonstration.

So goes the principle,

“as the speed of a moving fluid increases, the pressure within the fluid decreases.”

So when you drive a two-wheeler, and a vehicle passes by; the velocity of air(the fluid) in between increases thereby reducing the pressure.

Hence the feeling.

I was also told that that is the reason why the doors and windows closed with gushes of wind.

I was exhilarated.

1. It was a science.

2. Everyone felt that way.

1 and 2 implied it wasn’t a psychological disorder.

*relief*

As the idea sunk in, a new realization that ran a chill down my spine dawned.

It was ‘feeling’ in the physical sense of the word!

The suction was real!

*panic mode activated*

Consequently,

1. I try not to drive slow.

2. I do not mind putting on a few extra pounds. =D

3. I prefer to have someone sitting behind me! =)

Generally one must sequence points in a climax or anticlimax fashion. But yeah, whatever!

PS1: I think I should catch some sleep, because my head is pretty blank at this point in time and that generally is not the case!

PS2: It is so not fair to have parents on the internet! They look up the most embarrassing of the dances that you have done(BTW who the bally hell put up our felicity 07 dance on Youtube!), keep updated about what is going on in the college and question you about it: at which you are like- Oh!Is my college doing a joint project with Yahoo on cloud computing? and most importantly- read this! So you have to learn to say- FISH!

PS3: Darn! I am hungry!