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MaSSmeDiA |
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A lighter gyroscope |
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Why does a spinning gyroscope weigh less |
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9 February 2003
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JohnnyPotSomker - 07/03/2003 04:45:37
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| | Cause it gets horny with air and and boner acts as helium and raises the gyroscope
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Dr D.Fisher - 15/09/2003 15:40:47
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| | It doesn't. It may APPEAR to do so if the weighing is carried out incompetently. Far too many people believe that chemical balances and other measuring devices are 'black boxes' which magically produce a genuine result. Every measuring device interacts with the thing measured (that is not something unique to the quantum level) and account must be taken of this. Balances were never designed to weigh moving objects. Try a force platform, (in vacuo) and the levitation delusion will disappear.
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adam - 26/06/2004 11:58:29
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| | theoretically and object travelling at escape velocity becomes weightless. Therefore the outer rim of a spinning gyro should be weightless assuming that we can spin the divice to such mindboggling speeds.The inner hub and axis will always be a little heavier. I replicated Dr.Laithwaite's demo in my garage and noticed a substancial weight reduction in an 80 lb gyro.
I do not have phsics degree so please excuse my drabby explanation.
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