Could this experiment alter our perception of time?

Question

This experiment with a gyroscope (like a spinning top) measured the amount of time it took to stop. In the same direction, ie right spin, measured time, right spin, measured time... it took the same amount of time to stop. However when the direction was altered, ie right spin, measured time, left spin, measured time, right spin measured time, left spin... it took longer each time for the gyroscope to stop. When left alone for a certain amount of time, then spun again it still had a longer amount of time to stop. It took a month of the gyroscope not being spun for it to return to its original spinning time.
The experiment didn't result from error as it was done by an experienced physicist who used different materials to make sure the experiment had no fault.
The gyroscope appears to have attributes that make our present perception of mathematics and physics not fully thorough. It appears to escape our present perception of time.
http://www.oswirus.krakow.pl/cat_14/gyroscope/

The physicist brought the experiment to many other physicists and scientist and they would automatically refuse to participate. He then told them that it's an easy experiment to replicate and they should just try it on their own. They still refused. It seems that replication is unlikely with no willingness to take action. It seems interesting to me that people who are expected to create progress in technology and studies refuse to try and experiment something new. Why do they get scared off right away? Could they see something in it from the beginning that makes them worried that if things change they may have to give up their present stability?

Answer 1

I read the paper, or at least enough of it to answer some of the questions I had. The experiment seems to have been done properly and with all the necessary controls. It was reviewed and published in an accepted academic journal. Now the next part of the process has to take place: replication. It is unwise to draw too much of a conclusion from an experiment which seems to have profound consequences, before others have had a chance to repeat it.

My guess is that someone will find experimental fault, and when corrected, the effect will disappear. But still, that's just speculation on my part. I doubt that any low speed relativistic effect will be confirmed.

Post this in the physics forum. I would like to see what some of them will say.

Mercury, not true about the toilets. The coriolis effect is only on a global scale.

Answer 2

This isn't really a scientific experiment at all. Nothing was mathmatically predicted to start with. No prediction, no validation.

No calculation of the moment of inertia, no calculation of the initial energy, no calculation of the friction drag of the needle bearings, no calculation of the drag due to the air, temp of air is mentioned as being controlled, what about humidity, why didn't they do it in a vacuum...

I don't mean to be critical but it sounds like lazy science at best.

In defense of your feeling that mathmatics might not be the whole story of what goes on in the universe I will agree. You might want to read "Kicking the Sacred Cow" by James Hogan, "The End of Time" by Julius Barbour and "The Trouble With Physics" by Lee Smolin. Food for thought all.

Mother nature got here a looooooong time before anyone could add 2 + 2........lol

Answer 3

it rather is obtrusive they did not evaluate gravity. Gravity can seem to alter in different places of the international. It has no result on time. Time can not be controlled or studied by utilising exterior or latest products. Time can in basic terms be understood by utilising finding at mild, with the aid of fact seen mild can not be rather affected by utilising gravity.

Answer 4

It has to do with motion, we use man made clocks to measure what we call time, any variations in experiments like this is due strictly to variations in motion, we interpret these variations to be differences in time, in reality they are nothing more more than variations in motion.

Answer 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHC8z6ULs18


I'm guessing, maybe it depends on what hemisphere of the planet your on that governs which direction it spins easier....

like the whirlpool bit... toilets/drains on the north hemisphere spin one direction and toilets/drains on the south hemisphere spin in the opposite direction.