Solve this Riddle if you can

Indeed it is water, which can of course break glass in the form of say, a tsunami, or water freezing solid inside a glass. Obviously, pretty much anything that can knock down a building can also break the glass inside that building. (Incidentally, can anyone think of something that fits the first line absolutely, without regard to satisfy the second?)

The key point, then, is to go to the other clues, fit those first, and then come up with some rationale to explain this contradiction: in common experience and for most practical purposes, water cannot break glass, either as rain against a window or when you pour it into a glass.

Most people did in fact use this technique but either neglected this or some other clue completely, and as a result did not hit upon the mostly correct answer. The most significant was the stairs bit, which is what I felt gave it away, but it seems that most people did not attach enough importance to this crucial piece.

It is not possible that something that can break a building yet not break glass. Simply because there is a lot of glass used in buildings and if the force could not break glass that the building would keep standing.

In common experience water can not break a building either and if you look at some drawings of Esher then can you see that water is able to walk upstairs. If exceptions should be used to understand the riddle, then could you say that if in some situations water can break a building that in those exact same situations water can walk up a stairs (for sure when the stairs are in a sinking ship).

Anyhow, I like it that you came up with a riddle made by yourself. It also shows how difficult it is. I will try it too.

It is inner processing is chaotic, its results are utmost precise,

it is strictly governed by laws, which are not made humanwise,

it is a really cool working time independent device.

What is it?

clock or watch ?

Kikyo_Sushi: the first line states that it has a chaotic internal processing. I would not think of that with a clock or watch in general, do you?

Not bad. I respectfully submit however that:

2. In the entire history of mankind, I would be surprised to learn that there had ever been anyone anywhere who had no air in his house.

5. The meek and uneducated pay no attention to air, they take it for granted.

6. Exhaled air does not end up in the bowels of the earth, it is overwhelmingly recycled into the atmosphere.

the answer is imagination

Imagination lies dormant in the bowls the of the earth huh?

For a grandfather clock with a forced, damped pendulum, it would by definition be chaotic, and if you take a very liberal view to the second, it is technically governed by physical/mechanical laws. It doesn't at all meet the third though.

For it to be precise there must be the possibility of it not being precise, i.e. to make errors, whether in measurement, simulation, or physical movement. The second line is difficult to interpret, because technically everything is governed by natural laws that were not made by humans. The third, on the other hand, seems to eliminate all of the possibilities that spring to mind!

What timepiece has the fewest moving parts? What timepiece has the most?

Haha, beautiful a damped pendulum! However, a pendulum is not utmost precise by nature is it?

There is a solution.

A heart.

That is a beautiful idea Fingerly! But how do you explain 'utmost precise'?

And is your heart really cool working? I sincerely hope not.

I was thinking of "cool" as a modern adjective conveying wonder, as in "I think pictures of nebulas are cool," or "Family Guy is a cool show."

Since this is apparently a temperature-related "cool", the solar system, or Milky Way, or universe should work.

im awesome

I used the word cool instead of cold to make it not that obvious indeed. I did not know that they have utmost precise results? :-)

Heartbeats fluctuate on multiple levels based on multiple variables.  However, they generally keep a steady rhythm.  More than this, though: in cases where the lack of a heartbeat defines death, the presence of a heartbeat will define life.  That's an important and precise dividing line for people who like to keep breathing.   

In any case, I think you should sue your dentist for malpractice.

(Name's Bond.  James Bond)

The grammar of the riddle throws me off.... but from how I read it I would assume the answer is that it says he traveled on his car, not in his car. Therefore he drove back and it took him significantly less time.

he went back on a horse called sunday