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When all the slack has been rotated out, it would require a tremendous amount of force to rotate that last gear in reverse. After all, the system wants to ampli
by jagged-chisel 7y ago
When all the slack has been rotated out, it would require a tremendous amount of force to rotate that last gear in reverse. After all, the system wants to amplify the gear speed from that end.
- NegativeLatency 7y agoI think parent’s idea would work if the system was mirrored and duplicated. Then you could attach the two the them together with the stationary gears in the middle
- rtkwe 7y agoSo 10^100:1:10^100? I think the slack, friction losses, flex, material strength would all take out so much of the energy you'd get a tiny fraction of movement at the far end if any.
- Benjammer 7y agoWow I like this idea, instead of concrete you really emphasize the point with another motor the opposite direction and the other end.
- noncoml 7y agoYes, thanks for clarifying it :)
- numpad0 7y agoActually not mirrored, just duplicated and joined at the concrete face. Mirrored would rotate in the same direction. Then it’ll “create two universe worth of energy” at the center of it.
- amelius 7y agoYeah, but if you'd actually run the machine long enough it would simply destroy itself due to the force multiplier.
- 6nf 7y agoSure but the point is that ‘long enough’ in this case is so long that we would never actually see it happen.
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