All Roads Lead To Rome

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"All roads lead to Rome"

Analyze this saying in terms of vectors, scalars, displacement, and distance, and provide
examples.

I am agreed with this quote. This well-known saying is really something that has as of now been
demonstrated by physicists; however for them, the inquiry is to what extent will it take to arrive?
Specialists from CNRS have surprisingly explained a hypothesis that evaluates the time it takes
to get to a given location by taking random directions at every crossroad. The quote "All roads
lead to Rome" Means that no matter what you do or where you go, you will always end up with
the same outcome, or destination (Rome). This clearly could apply with vectors because a vector
is a quantity that has both magnitude and direction. Vectors have a beginning, and also an ending.
So no matter where you go with a vector, you will always reach an end point. In this case, the
ending point is "Rome". An example for scalar would be mass, length, and speed. There is no
direction with scalar quantities, only magnitude. So if you would relate this to the quote, you
could understand that there is always a number associated with scalar quantities. No matter what
you do to an object (mass) - there will always be an outcome (a number). Just like this quote,
there will always be an outcome (Rome), hence all roads lead to Rome. The displacement would
represent that an individual would like to get to Rome quickly and shortly, taking the quick route.
Scalars have no direction, and they could represent any temperature, time, etc. that could
interrupt the trip to Rome.

Reference:

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/vectors/u3l1a.cfm

http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/1096.htm

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