Posted on 07/26/2018 11:43:06 AM PDT by Heartlander
Or Kill it!
Boy, what’s the torque like on that baby?
Not if Liberals have their way!
NASA heck, think what this will do for NASCAR.
Sounds like an Ocasio-Cortez campaign slogan.
Interesting point.
It’s a vacuum. Can’t you just apply acceleration to it and multiply by the amount of time applied to get velocity at the instant the acceleration is removed? It’s going to be a linear function, if I recall my physics.
Kinda like pushing on a merry go round that’s frictionless. As long as you can apply force, the merry go round accelerates?
I’ll just wait for the schooling now . . .
Well then get everyone you know who’s conservative to vote this November!
My God, this spins faster than a member of Congress on a controversial subject!
Now THAT’S funny!
I wonder if it could be used to measure the gravitational constant better than this experiment.
https://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/gravitational-constant
Indeed. There is so much we don't know yet and will, hopefully in our lifetimes. Not just in mechanics but in medicine too. We're made of atomic particles after all. Once we can manipulate them, immortality may not be out of reach :-).
The rpm has to be theoretical. No way they could measure it.
The fastest-spinning neutron star ever found has been discovered in a crowded star cluster near the centre of the Milky Way, a new study reveals.
The star rotates 716 times per second [2,577,600 per min] – faster than some theories predict is possible – and therefore may force researchers to revise their models.
Neutron stars form when a massive star explodes at the end of its life and leaves behind a super-dense, spinning ball of neutrons. These stellar corpses emit intense beams of radio waves from their poles and are called pulsars.
Most pulsars rotate just a few times per second, but some spin hundreds of times faster. These so-called millisecond pulsars whip around so quickly because they are thought to have stripped mass – and angular momentum – from companion stars at some point in their histories.
Astronomers led by Jason Hessels of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, used the 100-metre Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, US, to clock the newly discovered pulsar at 716 rotations per second, or 716 hertz. The previous record holder, which spins at 642 Hz, was discovered in 1982. ...”
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8576-fast-spinning-neutron-star-smashes-speed-limit/
60 billion RPM’s. How do you measure that?
I’ve often contemplated that as we look out into the vastness of space and are amazed by discoveries, similar amazing discoveries await to be found in the opposite direction in minutia of which our exploration has just dented the surface.
YEah ... and they're even smaller than this object.
“If a pair of virtual particles come into existence and the rotor whacks one of them and then gets out of the way before it can interact with the other one, can we get an effect like Hawking radiation?”
What are the odds of that happening?
It is wonderful when hearty souls, toiling in the fields of theoretical and practical physics, grasp a handle that pulls the curtain back on the mysteries of our universe through dedicated effort and perseverance.
or
a flea circus....
(the PHD need beer money)
Either way, should be fun!
KYPD
The speed of light? Interesting. In a suspended vacuum, assuming the particle can maintain its integrity, if the pulse stop penetrating the spinning "device", have we not accelerated an object to the speed of light? WHOA!
What prevents the particle from spinning faster than light, besides light itself? Theoretically, if the device is spinning at the speed of light and then launched in space, is there not a component of the device (the outer edge) that will exceed the speed limit?
Physics is fun. ;o)
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