This Is The Fastest Rotor Humans Have Ever Built, And It's Bending Our Understanding of Physics

Science Alert ^ | 24 JUL 2018 | DAVID NIELD

[Waverunner]

I thought dem brains were spinning this fast about 20 months ago.

[2ndDivisionVet]

100 years from now 2018 will look like 1492.

[Covenantor]

Bkmrk

[fishtank]

The fastest rotor may help NASA find a warp field for propulsion....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%E2%80%93Juday_warp-field_interferometer

[rjsimmon]

They did not mention how the rotations were counted. If it is based upon the pulse rate of the laser while circular, it would seem that the rotation is limited to the lasers ability to pulse.

[Pelham]

I sometimes wonder if this stuff constitutes welfare spending for physics PhDs.

[faucetman]

“The Fastest Rotor Humans Have Ever Built”

“The super-spinner is made up of a silica nanoparticle, shaped like a dumbbell.....”

“The nanoparticle itself is only about the size of a bacterial particle, around 170 nanometres wide and 320 nanometres long...”

In other words, the helicopters would be VERY small.

[DannyTN]

[SpinnerWebb]

but so, so fast.

[fruser1]

I can't wait until this makes it out into production but, then again, some eco nazi will probably shut it down.

[BitWielder1]

The MSM's need it for their spin machines.

[blackdog]

Yeah, but can you put a confederate flag on the hood?

[smokingfrog]

I'm going to have to wait for Penny to explain this one to me.

[bk1000]

See, we’ve got this tiny thing spinning at 60 billion rpm. No, you can’t see it, but it’s there, we promise. Now we just need a few $MM in grant money...

[Calvin Locke]

Not necessarily.

Think of a strobe. Perhaps it's only catching it synchronously.

Say it's going twice as fast, you're only seeing it once for every two rotations.

[rightwingcrazy]

If the vacuum affects the rotor, it seems to me that the rotor is also affecting the vacuum (its virtual particles). Someone ought to be able to make some hay out of that.

[Artemis Webb]

If I can’t fly with it and shoot laser beams out of my eyes it’s useless.

[DannyTN]

Yeah but the alternative is not to explore particle physics. And that’s where I think the real scientific breakthroughs in many fields is going to come from.

[DannyTN]

Yeah but the alternative is not to explore particle physics. And that’s where I think the real scientific breakthroughs in many fields is going to come from.