It's the 1974 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. If you watch it all, he'll tell you all about it.
I'd link to hooktube, but I'm not sure if they handle playlists properly. It's a good one.
As for the lectures, they've been doing them for years. I think I've seen all the lectures they have made available - which I think is all those recorded to video. My favorite is with the physicist Dr. Brian Cox. My second favorite is by a chemist and it's mind blowing.
It's not "well understood". Eric Laithwaite's paper was declined because the pathetic "science" establishment doesn't want people to know a simple gyroscope defies man-made "laws" of physics.
Note, he finally came to his senses and admitted that gyroscopes follow Newtonian physics. There's no mystery. It's well understood. Just because you don't understand, doesn't make it magic. It's not magic, it's just weird - until you understand the gyroscopic effects and then, after that, it is pretty intuitive.
.... wow. That is one of the most pathetic and slanderous Wikipedia articles out there.
He never "admitted" anything. Stop spreading pathetic slanderous lies. But then again we know why you are here... #Disinfo
Ping @the_cat (maybe he's interested in giggling).
That you think I'm here for some sort of "disinfo" makes me giggle. I'm a retired old mathematician in Northwestern Maine. I'm not some disinfo anything. I'm just a people - a people who actually has some grad-school level physics under his belt.
I will never understand the leap (lapse) of logic that leads people to conclude that everything they don't understand must be wrong. It never once occurs to them that they might just be stupid.
LOL I thought you might get a kick out of this one. He's still going, even though I told him that I was writing not for him but for anyone else who reads this drivel. It was well understood back when I was in school, so I'm not sure how it's not common knowledge. It's even intuitive, if you understand what a gyroscope does.
I tried to be nice, initially. That wore out quickly.
The good news? He didn't stick it in v/science! I suppose the username should have clued me in and warned me to approach with caution. The sad part is, I was very willing to explain it, as best as I could. I don't think that'd help, however.
Ah well... I figured you'd enjoy the chuckle. Or is that 'chucklefuck?' Do anything interesting today?
People don't use the Internet to search for information, but to search for confirmation of their own genius. Anything else gets rejected as false. To quote a president: "Sad!"
I've been out with the flu, still somehow managed to improvise a talk on my research in front of a bunch of planetologists, which went surprisingly well. And been watching the science sub crumble from afar. Maybe I should do an informative post again, teach something.
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Mumbleberry ago
YT channel spam.
TheBuddha ago
To add to your post:
It's not antigravity. It's not magic. It's gyroscopic effects that are well understood. If you want to see the full lecture:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8E9B08118DE0C4EB
It's the 1974 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. If you watch it all, he'll tell you all about it.
I'd link to hooktube, but I'm not sure if they handle playlists properly. It's a good one.
As for the lectures, they've been doing them for years. I think I've seen all the lectures they have made available - which I think is all those recorded to video. My favorite is with the physicist Dr. Brian Cox. My second favorite is by a chemist and it's mind blowing.
matheasysolutions ago
It's not "well understood". Eric Laithwaite's paper was declined because the pathetic "science" establishment doesn't want people to know a simple gyroscope defies man-made "laws" of physics.
TheBuddha ago
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Start here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Laithwaite
Note, he finally came to his senses and admitted that gyroscopes follow Newtonian physics. There's no mystery. It's well understood. Just because you don't understand, doesn't make it magic. It's not magic, it's just weird - until you understand the gyroscopic effects and then, after that, it is pretty intuitive.
matheasysolutions ago
.... wow. That is one of the most pathetic and slanderous Wikipedia articles out there. He never "admitted" anything. Stop spreading pathetic slanderous lies. But then again we know why you are here... #Disinfo
TheBuddha ago
F=ma
It's pretty basic.
Ping @the_cat (maybe he's interested in giggling).
That you think I'm here for some sort of "disinfo" makes me giggle. I'm a retired old mathematician in Northwestern Maine. I'm not some disinfo anything. I'm just a people - a people who actually has some grad-school level physics under his belt.
The_Cat ago
I will never understand the leap (lapse) of logic that leads people to conclude that everything they don't understand must be wrong. It never once occurs to them that they might just be stupid.
TheBuddha ago
LOL I thought you might get a kick out of this one. He's still going, even though I told him that I was writing not for him but for anyone else who reads this drivel. It was well understood back when I was in school, so I'm not sure how it's not common knowledge. It's even intuitive, if you understand what a gyroscope does.
I tried to be nice, initially. That wore out quickly.
The good news? He didn't stick it in v/science! I suppose the username should have clued me in and warned me to approach with caution. The sad part is, I was very willing to explain it, as best as I could. I don't think that'd help, however.
Ah well... I figured you'd enjoy the chuckle. Or is that 'chucklefuck?' Do anything interesting today?
The_Cat ago
People don't use the Internet to search for information, but to search for confirmation of their own genius. Anything else gets rejected as false. To quote a president: "Sad!"
I've been out with the flu, still somehow managed to improvise a talk on my research in front of a bunch of planetologists, which went surprisingly well. And been watching the science sub crumble from afar. Maybe I should do an informative post again, teach something.
TheBuddha ago
You should!