The thing is... they're pretty much both right, except they're arguing about different matters conceptually...

Nigel says that, by principles of physics, there technically is some progressive movement by means of the speaker's cone shape. He is correct.

Peter basically says that this is almost too small to even be considered, and would definitely not be noticable in any way at all. He is also correct.


Keep in mind that Nigel tends to argue things like this just for the sake of debate and talking physics. For those of you who think his arguments are entirely serious when applied to a real-world human situation, you're sadly mistaken. I think Matra might fall into this category.

But hell, it's not even as outrageous as another humourous physics-related argument involving the "fastest colour of paint"... but let's not even go there