Thomas asks… What is the difference between gerund and present participle? Clive answers: Both are the verb form ending in ING. The difference is that gerunds are nouns and participles are adjectives. Example: SWIMMING is fun. Swimming is used as a noun, subject of the verb is. (gerund) Example: I love swimming. Swimming is a ...…
Susan asks… the universal law of attraction: why do objects depend on the square of the distance between them? ..and not just on the distance itself…can anyone explain this to me? Clive answers: All fields that originate at a point source (or can be considered as doing so) and spread out uniformly in all directions ...…
Donald asks… What does Warren Buffet say about shorting a stock? Recently someone boasted to me how he knows what it means to take a short position in a stock. Is that kind of risk even reasonable? What does Warren Buffet say about it? Clive answers: Short selling is not new. People were doing that ...…
