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Pushed by elephants

IMAGINE four baby elephants pushing hard. This contribution to our collection of unusual units comes from an advertising booklet from a tyre company. It illustrates the “5 gs of force” that racing drivers experience.

Generously leaving aside the distinction between acceleration and force, and the considerable differences among baby elephants, Dez Barbara wonders how many readers have been pushed by even one baby elephant, and why “four of these units should be easier for me to imagine than simply five times the force I feel every day”.

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