I had the oddest dream last night that I must share with you lot. Perhaps we may even have a resident Freud to analyse it!
I was in a laboratory with a dozen scientists. They were the genuine article, real egg head boffins in smart suits and immaculate white lab coats. They were gathered round a socking great battery about 6 feet cube. "This battery obviously contains a great deal of electricity," they explained to me in words of one syllable, "and we have made it to a very flexible design so that its shape can be changed." They loaded this thing onto a forklift trolley and away we went through labs full of other busy inventors until we came to a room with an immense hydraulic press. "Now," I was told "we are going to squeeze the battery and make it suitable for a leccy bike." In it went and buttons were pressed and the great ram came slowly down. After a while it was sent up again and the doors were flung open. The battery was now a foot high - but alas 12 feet square! There was much chatter among the scientists and eventually one of them said that pressure would have to be applied all round thus making a sphere. At which point unfortunately I woke up. I really badly wanted to know what happened with the spherical pressure and felt quite cheated. Perhaps some of you can enlighten me.
I was in a laboratory with a dozen scientists. They were the genuine article, real egg head boffins in smart suits and immaculate white lab coats. They were gathered round a socking great battery about 6 feet cube. "This battery obviously contains a great deal of electricity," they explained to me in words of one syllable, "and we have made it to a very flexible design so that its shape can be changed." They loaded this thing onto a forklift trolley and away we went through labs full of other busy inventors until we came to a room with an immense hydraulic press. "Now," I was told "we are going to squeeze the battery and make it suitable for a leccy bike." In it went and buttons were pressed and the great ram came slowly down. After a while it was sent up again and the doors were flung open. The battery was now a foot high - but alas 12 feet square! There was much chatter among the scientists and eventually one of them said that pressure would have to be applied all round thus making a sphere. At which point unfortunately I woke up. I really badly wanted to know what happened with the spherical pressure and felt quite cheated. Perhaps some of you can enlighten me.
