How do you find the middle of the surface of tread on a tire?

Wait what?

Isn't that the bottom of the tread itself?

Please tell me that you are really trying to be funny.

The middle point of the tread.
Imagine cutting the tread layer off of a tire and then measuring to find the center of the mass.
But without cutting the tread off.

Depth gauge.

O.K. depth gauge gives thickness to find the center in one dimension.
Measure across to find the width for another dimension.
Now we need to find the third point for the center of the mass that is the tread.

X-Axis.

We have x axis and y axis, we need z axis.
How do we find it?

Hey stupid, just use a Penny. As long as the tread goes past Lincoln's head you have legal tread.

LOL no not tread depth trying to find the center point of the tread on a tire in three dimensions.
The tread exists in three dimensions so it must have a center in all three dimensions.

Why is it important? What's the square root of useless information?

There is no such thing as useless information.

Then what will you use this info for?

Think of it this way it could be just a strange and trivial concept in measuring surfaces or it could lead to the Heisenberg compensator.

Attempting to test and possibly break both the observer effect and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
By working with a finite infinity and breaking infinity down to the finite.
Applications would be unimaginable.

Superman wears Walter White PJ's.

I have been drinking much too long to really comprehend at the moment, no excuses though.

Thank you for the teaser, it is good to get people thinking.

Thank you I was just trying to at the least give a little teaser to make people think and at most maybe inspire someone in a new direction. Including myself.

How do you find the center without cutting the tread off thereby creating the center?

Oh I was inspired to write this thread by someone asking where the center of the big bang was.
I thought how do you find the center of something that is infinite which led me to my question.

This becomes relevant when one considers that to know where everything is coming from and going to, one pretty much has to know near-exactly where everything is. By Star Trek's 24th century, that is no longer a problem, since the Heisenberg compensator s are used to keep everything in the matter stream exactly where it should be.

Yes where everything is and how it is moving.
The requirements to measure and track are enormous and the data stream would almost be infinite.
So a method to deal with the infinite is a key component to overcome the limitations and break both the principles of Heisenberg and the observer effect.

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Ok, this is bugging me.

So, you have a width.

So, you have a depth.

And a circumference.

PI=3.14

From this we can get an outer circumference, but we still need to figure out the center of the tread depth?

Give a hint. ???

Are you an engineer for General Tire?

3.14 * (OD - 1/2 tread depth)^2
will give location of tread center line, but NOT the center of mass.

17.5 million new tires are installed annually, that does not include the ones sold on new cars..... ever wonder why there are not piles of rubber on the side of the highways?? Where does the rubber go?

Not an engineer for a tire company.
I am trying to find the center of the tread mass around the circumference of the tire.
Imagine cutting the tread off and laying it flat.
Where is the center of the stretched out mass of rubber?

We can expand the concept into more dimensions once we have the method.
We will be able to work with things such as beach balls planets and even the universe.

this is what you do!!!

first grab a beer,
then sit down.
drink beer,

Doesn't matter any more does it.