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I love these things where a whole chain of events is set up. This one claims to be the most exotic. I love the battery-powered toy dogs at the end.
It bothers me that the intent is to demonstrate energy transfer. Great for making science interesting, but is it really about energy transfer?
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That might have been the best if it had been done in one take rather that as half a bazillion small ones.
It's definitely not about transferring energy, though it can be argued that is is about transferring information through a series of signal amplifiers. One bit's worth of information.
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what is the name for a set of triggers, ? As Henrik says you could call it a series of amplifiers each having a preset potential energy and not self resetting. There are some around on you tube with a long sequence in one take which is impressive.
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I noticed that they used the diver from the game Mousetrap, which seemed like a nice touch.
Conserve energy. Commute with the Hamiltonian.
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Holy Goldberg, Batman!
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I agree, there's no evidence that it actually ran from end to end without stopping.Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
At first I thought it was a poorly worded article by the Gaurdian. But; that's exactly what they say on the museum's website.
I was hoping to find a better explaination of why they think it teaches the transfer of energy. Almost everthing in there already has it's own potential energy or is powered by an outside source.
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I sure wouldn't want someone making a mess like that in MY machine shop. If I had a machine shop...
Interesting way of opening and pouring the bottle of wine, though.
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IMNSHO, it's not a kinetic sculpture but a Rube Goldberg machine. Kinetic sculptures are always moving, RG machines are "run once then reset."
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