What is Bernoulli’s Principle?

If you know then pat yourself on your back because there’s only a few people that can remember what it is from their high school science classes.

Bernoulli’s Principle states that “For any airfoil generating lift, there must be a pressure imbalance, i.e. lower average air pressure on the top than on the bottom. Bernoulli’s principle states that this pressure difference must be accompanied by a speed difference.”

Isn’t that amazing?

Just kidding!

Let me simplify.

In order to create lift for an airfoil aka wing of an airplane and keep an airplane afloat, air must pass over the top of the wing faster than the bottom of wing.

That’s right. Air!

The job of a propeller or jet engine is to move the aircraft forward in such a way that the Bernoulli Principle can work. But it’s all based on air.

When was the last time you saw air?

You know it’s all around you because hopefully you’re breathing it right now.

So here we are as a collective species basing our entire existence on something we take for granted yet cannot hear, see or touch, unless under certain controlled circumstances.

That’s a lot of faith.

What if you could use that same faith to propel yourself forward through life with a knowing that there are certain principles in place that are working for you too?

What if there’s a version of the Bernoulli Principle for humans too?

It might exist, but you won’t find it unless you have faith, and not necessarily faith in a religious context, although that might and does work for some people. But faith that there are indeed other forces beyond your capacity to understand, that are just waiting to be activated by you.

So the next time you see an airplane remember that its entire premise is based on the invisible and visible working together. And this applies in your life too.

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