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100-year-old thought experiment is possible

submitted by GeeSussFreeK

1 decade 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago

...A similar machine was first proposed in 1912 by the Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski. In his thought experiment, he suggested that tiny moving particles could generate enough force to spin a windmill-type paddle. A locking mechanism such as a pawl could prevent backward motion, forcing the wheel to move in the forward direction only.
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http://www.physorg.com/news195819314.html

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Guess how they made it work, that's right, duct tape.

Wow, I can't believe this got sifted. You bunch of nerds!

*nochannel *science *geek *engineering

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Ahhh, obscure didn't mean what I thought it meant. Though, this is a debunk of Richard Feynman's long standing and widely held hypothesis that such a machine would not work.

He didn't factor in duct tape! Dammit, that's cheating! Everything works with duct tape!
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Ahhh, obscure didn't mean what I thought it meant. Though, this is a debunk of Richard Feynman's long standing and widely held hypothesis that such a machine would not work.

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