Amemeba wrote:Right Dwight, but there's more occult chemistry in the occassion of CO2 charged waters mixing. ( See Teresa's mathamatical calculations in her story about the cheap drunken sluts leaving the dance with random whoremongers.)
The analogy I'd use is two groups of cavers, say two teams of four cavers, carrying dig spoils from a dig. Say it's a long carry and say they always try to carry as much as they can. Give them a few bags and they'll carry a lot more than in their hands.
Give them one bag and they'll give it to the strongest caver. He'll carry a mess of dirt. Give them another bag and they'll give it to the second strongest. The team will carry more dirt but not twice as much. Give them more bags and they'll all carry even more, but not so much per bag, since the weight is getting them down. Each additional bag adds less and less to the total amount they can carry. Eventually throwing more bags at them is not going to make much difference.
So let's say the first team of four cavers has one bag and the second team of four cavers has twelve bags. Say they meet while traveling from the dig, each team carrying all they can. They mix and share all the bags. Now the first team can carry a lot more and the second team can carry a little less, so together they can carry more dirt. Always wanting to carry all they can, they dig a little dirt where they meet and carry it with them.
Hopefully it is easy to see that the cavers are like the water, the bags are like the CO2, and the dirt is like the limestone.