Thought experiment :
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Imagine a vast machine, bigger then the accelerator at C.E.R.N,
massive, or in fact you could imagine it desk ornament size come to think of it
And what it does is this...
There is say a 1000 meter perfectly engineered shaft, down which a say a massive ball is dropped, also perfectly engineered, the ball accelerates down the shaft, the shaft after the drop curves around using the momentum from the drop of the ball, the ball then goes up the extremely well engineered and tested ramp, back up to another shaft parallel shaft which has all of the many many balls on a water mill type of bucket system, so that when a ball drops into its waiting basket, or bucket, at the bottom of the said second shaft... this weight on the "ball mill" then causes the mill (also very exactly engineered) to drop down one space with weight of said ball, this in turn causes top ball to tilt over the edge and start its plummet down the 1000m shaft , and around back to the "mill"
2006-09-12
14:11:39
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Mark
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