Science from jimfl

Saturday 10 February 2007

¶ Attractors, another nifty Flash experiment toy.

¶ Using candles to generate electricity, which must be a fake, since how can current flow when there is no complete loop? And what would lighting a candle have to do with a nail stuck in the side?

Comments

Siddharta 10:36 PM on 10 Feb 2007

I like the way if you arrange things properly and then move everything out of the way, you can get the balls to orbit around the attractors forever.

Andrew Magerman 5:56 AM on 12 Feb 2007

a spoof, of course. Notice you cannot see the loop for the cables, and notice that one hand always seem to go under the table when the second candle is lighted. I would bet there is a switch there...

n[ate]vw 10:21 PM on 15 Feb 2007

Not exactly a thermocouple there....Additionally, to magnetize a nail you have to stroke it in one direction rather than scraping the magnet on it randomly, IIRC.

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