No, Sucky, I think your statement along with ND's is BS. Ask any professor of physics and they will state that you cannot tell the density of an object by looking at it. That is quite possibly the dumbest fucking statement made on this board for the entire 500+ pages. Your assertion that density is physical is beyond belief.
What the fuck? I never said that muscle density is physical; you did, when you said that muscle density is mass per volume! I have always said that I used the word density when it comes to muscles to imply hardness; it has absofuckinglutgely
nothing to do with physics! It was NeoSeminole and you who said that muscles can vary in physical density between people and that's the reasons why Dorian's muscles looked harder.
You really believe that or are you joshing? If you believe that, you need to stick to the law my friend. A physics major you are not. My contention was that unless Dorian and Ronnie had muscle core biopsies obtained and then weighed you could not assert in any viable manner who is denser.
But I never did!
I said that he
looked denser. This has nothing to do with physics! It was NeoSeminole who said that Dorian's muscles could weight the same and be smaller because they are "denser"! He was equating physical density with the way Dorian's muscles looked and that's simply not true. It is irrelevant who has greater physical muscle density between the two because there's no correlation between this and my definition of density as it applies to muscles, which is a purely
visual one. Get it?
However, both you and ND seem to think that Dorian had lower bodyfat and water weight. Have I been misreading your quotes for five hundred pages? If so, mea culpa. If so, listen to a little physics teaching session. If Dorian is lean (2% to 3% BF) and has less water weight; guess what, his musculature is denser. Why, you cannot spot reduce fat. Any person who has taken anatomy and physiology understands this. Moreover, water is not selectively removed from just the intravascular space. In dehydration (which is essentially what these bodybuilders are doing when they use diuretics) they are removing water from the intravascular, intracellular and subcutaneous space. Guess what, that would mean that he has less water in his muscles.
But this is irrelevant! Even if true, there's no corralation between muscles having a greater physical density and looking harder! It doesen't matter, because Ronnie could look softer yet have muscles with a greater physical density. Get it? You gave me the definition of physical density, something that NeoSeminole argued about, not me! Yes, that's the definition of physical density, but what the fuck has this to do with a muscle looking a certain way? Huh? I never argued that the definition of density is mass per volume; my contention was that this is irrelevant, since NeoSeminole claimed Dorian's "denser" look was the result of greater physical density, and this is simply not true! He can argue that Dorian's muscles could be smaller than Ronnie's and yet weight the same, but he cannot use a visual appearance of "density" as an indication for this because there is no correlation between the two things. Damn!
So if you and ND are correct, Dorian would be denser. It is not because he has smaller or larger muscles. It is because the variable components of muscle tissue are less prominent in his body (if you are correct). If you are wrong, Ronnie could very well be denser. If their variables are equal, then they could have equal densities. However, once again, to define muscularity and conditioning is a misnomer to the greatest extent. It is quite pointless. Hope that helps.
Dorian is denser to me because he looks harder. That's it. I never used the word "density" as in physical density; you did! You claimed that Dorian's muscles could be heavier or Ronnie's could be heavier, but this is irrelevant because the issue here is that there's no fucking correlation between physical density and the way Dorian's muscles looked. Get it? Geez!
Density, to me, as it relates to bodybuilding, is an entirely subjective
visual quality where Dorian's muscles looked harder than Ronnie's. No Plutonium does not look harder than Iron. So what? Again, it is
you who is claiming that muscle density is somewhat related to physical density, not me.
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