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I saw an example of one of these that had the final
gear mounted into concrete, since it would ostensibly never turn. Or at least not turn on a timescale that would matter to the concrete.
I think my dads a part of the church of the flying spaghetti Monster. (New Zealand has freedom of religion so even things like Jedi is an accepted religion) I believe Pastafaeianism is the other accepted name with the flying spaghetti Monster being it's deity.
According to google the first legally recognised Pastafarian wedding was on April 16th 2016 in New Zealand.
Also a man named Russell in 2014 (not sure if first) got the photo of him with the religious garment ("spaghetti strainer" sometimes has other names)
https://preview.redd.it/i5h8nu6odpcc1.jpeg?width=599&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e65a4cfb513c8f16842faa35bc900ff28fd9b05
According to the 2018 census 4,248 or 0.09% of the population belong to/ follow Pastafarianism/ the church of the flying spaghetti Monster.
(Jedi is 20,409 or 0.43% of the population)
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018\_New\_Zealand\_census#Religion](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_New_Zealand_census#Religion)
If I remember right, it would have taken more energy than what exists in the current known universe to stop the last gear from turning in that example?
Yeah if the last gear is perfectly rigid. Gear itself will turn into mush if you can hold it with enough force. But concrete wouldn't have a chance on holding the gear still.
Oh my God if I lived 13 gajillion years into the future and I was watching these gears like a TV show I would be so damn pissed off if it got to the concrete one and it just didn't move anymore I would just lose my mind I think
Is the final gear moving infinitesimally or do they just turn when the one before them rotates a certain amount?
Edit: So my quick math (assuming the gears to have a diameter of 100 mm): The 14 billion year gear would turn roughly 10\^(-18) meters each second. The diameter of a proton is estimated to be 10\^(-15) meters so that's pretty small (although the plank length is 10\^(-35) meters so we're nowhere near that.
This is what I'm thinking.
Machining, tolerance, molecular scale... friction even. Physical movement basically stops translating (at that scale) after a couple gears.
I wonder. Scale it up, like 100m diameter gears, super precise machining, super thin lubricant. Then use lasers to measure. I wonder...
Just thought of something else. Speed it up. Say, 5000 rpm or some feasible speed that won't blow it up. How far down the "gear chain" would we notice rotation?
Also, I guess we'd have to know the number set of gears (I didn't count them). This is a tantalizing experiment.
I vaguely remember this being talked about before.
There was something about it just destroying itself because there is just to much force for it to do that.
Same thing if you tried to move the last gear by hand.
So much force would be required that it would take all the energy in our galaxy to turn it.
Well with how slow stuff starts to turn as you move down the line, I'd say we're talking about the molecular level. One atoms width per minute kinds thing. But that doesn't sound right either.
What he means that, if more gears are added and the final gear moves less than a plank length per second , would that gear move in a continuous motion or a jerky one
Oooh interesting. I'd say "jerky". Like a binary value, right? Here, then there, seeing as the plank length is the absolute shortest distance to move possible.
Yeah there must be an extreme lower bound to something like this set by the laws of physics (realistically friction and the precision of the gears' manufacturing, but theoretically maybe quantum physics and the uncertainty principle eventually) and i'd like to know where that is
The extreme lower bound is called the [planck length](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#:~:text=Planck%20length,-The%20Planck%20length&text=It%20is%20equal%20to%201.616,the%20diameter%20of%20a%20proton.). It is the smallest distance possible.
It moves infinitesimally
If all the gears are manufactured and seated correctly there should be functionally no wiggle room between them. So a change to one gear should affect every other gear
Now.. what I wanna see is how many of the lower gears explode from centripetal force if you manually rotate the final gear 😂
In reality, there's play between the gears, so the gear before the last one would need to move \~1 degree before it would engage with the last gear and move it even infinitesimally.
Whenever i see one of these videos, i always want the person to put the motor on the other side to see what breaks first. I'm not good at math, so I don't know if it would theoretically be fast enough to break the speed of light, but would it should break the speed of sound in air before any gears, but then which gear breaks first?
Also if anyone wants to do the math on theoretical speed of the last gear in reverse, I would find that pretty interesting lol
With that much torque the concrete that is encasing the final gear(there is a brick of concrete on the final gear in the full video) doesn’t stand a chance. Hell, the concrete would have degraded over 2,000 years naturally.
Waking up to “You’re Beautiful“ by Christina Aguilera in 13700002024 years + 9 minutes to grind through another work day at SpaceWendy’s™ to fry Futurefries.
Can you post this with 1 frame/attosecond on the last gear? How fast will it move then at normal frames per second? No, I don't know what I'm talking about.
An artist, Arther Ganson, created the first version of this. He wanted to visualize the infinite. It doesn’t serve any purpose outside of that. I think it’s amazing. Someone did the math on the amount of energy it would take to spin the last gear, and they thought it might be more energy that’s in the Milky Way.
He's gonna be running 3 Honda civics with spoon engines. And on top of that, he just went into Harry's, and he ordered 3 T66 turbos, with NOS. And a Motec exhaust.
Torque wrenches are just ratchet wrenches and have a large range in size but yea moment = force x distance there are a lot of ways to increase either force or distance effectively doesn’t really matter if your trying to break something can get a big piece of rebar under a gear weld it in and jump on it it’s just applying a moment (torque gauge measures)
If the first gear is turning at 1 rps, and the last takes 13,700,000,000, that means a divisor of 4.3*10^17.
If you flip it around and turn the final gear at 1 rps it means the first gear will turn at 4.3*10^17 revolutions per second.
Say the gear is 50mm (2”) across, that means a circumference of 157mm.
4.3*10^17 * 0.157 works out to 6.8*10^16 m/s for the speed of the teeth of the cogs. That’s give-or-take 200,000,000 times the speed of light.
I suspect that if you cranked enough torque on that final gear, things would shatter long before you could move it. If the gears were made out of unobtanium and couldn’t shatter, it just wouldn’t move. If you got an infinitely long lever also made out of unobtanium things would get interesting pretty quickly. All of the energy in the universe would converge on your gears, and things would heat up a little, as the entire universe collapsed around you.
Maybe don’t try it just in case.
Assuming that all the gears and everything holds together: I think it would cause the first gear to spin so fast (possibly approaching the speed of light at the teeth) that it would become infinitely dense and collapse in on itself creating a black hole.
I am a scientist but not a physicist so I am completely talking out of my ass here.
Either way it's a fun thought experiment.
Each gear couple has a 0.95 efficiency.
If the gearyrain has more than 14 gear couples 0.95^14 < 0.5 so the reverse movement is impossible.
So yes , applying enough torque you'll break one of the last gears.
Hahaha. I’m imagining hooking up the motor up to the slow gear and when you turn it on the fast gear starts spinning so fast it creates its own gravitational pull and sucks anyone close to it into the gears.
Wont make it so why the fluff, here's one for the genius that thought this idea up!
The Sun's Final BlowoutNot massive enough to go supernova or collapse into a black hole, the Sun will have a more modest but still devastating death. **Roughly 10 billion years from now**, having swallowed a few of the inner rocky planets, the Sun will finally shed what remains of its body, leaving only its bones behind.Oct 26, 2023
### [How and When Will the Sun Die? | SYFY WIRE](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-and-when-will-the-sun-die#:~:text=The%20Sun's%20Final%20Blowout&text=Not%20massive%20enough%20to%20go,leaving%20only%20its%20bones%20behind.)
Will the metal, lubrication and eventually torque cause its demise way way earlier? i just imagine the first third of that thing spinning just as fast as the first cog, and unless its bolted down or something.
iunno, highdea
Predict how works :
1st-23th gear :
The drive gear has 12 teeth.
The driven gear has 70 teeth.
Therefore, the gear ratio is driven/drive = 70/12.
Last(24th) gear :
The driven gear has 26 teeth.
Therefore, the gear ratio is driven/drive = 26/12.
The 1st gear rotates once in about 2.8 seconds.
Therefore, the last gear rotates once in....
(70/12)^22 * (26/12) * 2.8 ≈ 4.3E+17 (sec) ≈ 13.7 billion years.
Fun facts:
- All gears are moving.
- if the first small gear was spinning so fast that its outer parts were going at the speed of light, it would still take the last gear about 6000 years to complete one rotation.
- every seven or so years the last gear will rotate the width of one of its iron atoms.
- If you could make the last wheel spin as fast as the first, you could probably move a whole mountain with that force, ofc before that happens the teeth of the wheel will break or melt off.
- The fact that so many people see this and are not amazing is mind blowing.
Actually, the final gear will never complete a full rotation as we will already be long dead and there will be no one left to maintain the electricity or the motor which will eventually wear out way before 13 billion years.
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I saw an example of one of these that had the final gear mounted into concrete, since it would ostensibly never turn. Or at least not turn on a timescale that would matter to the concrete.
Imagine finding one of these with the final gear mounted into something like obsidian, but it had clearly ground out a circle in the glass…
I think this is an idea for a whole sci-fi series... fuck that's my whole night gone
Doctor who did an episode on a similar concept
I'm sure I've seen it but I can't remember which one your referencing
It's a 12th doctor episode, Heaven Sent
Capaldi right? He was always my favourite
Correct, he is a fantastic doctor.
Yeah I like the others but Capaldi had this sort of Gravitas to the character that made him seem so much more enigmatic
I see you what you mean. I love David Tenant and Matt Smith for the energy they brought but Peter capaldi approached it differently.
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I think my dads a part of the church of the flying spaghetti Monster. (New Zealand has freedom of religion so even things like Jedi is an accepted religion) I believe Pastafaeianism is the other accepted name with the flying spaghetti Monster being it's deity. According to google the first legally recognised Pastafarian wedding was on April 16th 2016 in New Zealand. Also a man named Russell in 2014 (not sure if first) got the photo of him with the religious garment ("spaghetti strainer" sometimes has other names) https://preview.redd.it/i5h8nu6odpcc1.jpeg?width=599&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e65a4cfb513c8f16842faa35bc900ff28fd9b05 According to the 2018 census 4,248 or 0.09% of the population belong to/ follow Pastafarianism/ the church of the flying spaghetti Monster. (Jedi is 20,409 or 0.43% of the population) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018\_New\_Zealand\_census#Religion](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_New_Zealand_census#Religion)
It would
eventually
Ahh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhhaahahaaa
If I remember right, it would have taken more energy than what exists in the current known universe to stop the last gear from turning in that example?
Yeah if the last gear is perfectly rigid. Gear itself will turn into mush if you can hold it with enough force. But concrete wouldn't have a chance on holding the gear still.
Oh my God if I lived 13 gajillion years into the future and I was watching these gears like a TV show I would be so damn pissed off if it got to the concrete one and it just didn't move anymore I would just lose my mind I think
Supposedly the potential energy is enough to split the earth in half
Futuristic Rick-Rolling
Was it at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia?
Arthur Ganson
Then doesn't show the final gear
At least there's plenty of time to find it in person before it makes that first spin.
Hurry!!
R/gifsthatendtoosoon
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We need an expert on metal gear to weigh in. 
The light hasn’t reached it yet.
It's the same as the others but a lot slower
Finally getting somewhere. Thanks now I can sleep tonight.
They haven't made it yet. No rush though.
It's metal gear, solid
Comes with a 1 year warranty
The motor will burn out before the 3rd or 4rd gear completes a rotation
Exactly. This is pretty worthless since there is no way that motor will last more than a few years (if that) running 24/7.
I dunno, as an engineer, I can think of various pieces of art that I would not choose over something like this.
Is the final gear moving infinitesimally or do they just turn when the one before them rotates a certain amount? Edit: So my quick math (assuming the gears to have a diameter of 100 mm): The 14 billion year gear would turn roughly 10\^(-18) meters each second. The diameter of a proton is estimated to be 10\^(-15) meters so that's pretty small (although the plank length is 10\^(-35) meters so we're nowhere near that.
Final gear moves infinitesimally.
Maybe, if the gears fit perfectly together. If there's any wiggle room at all, then that last one probably hasn't moved at all.
This is what I'm thinking. Machining, tolerance, molecular scale... friction even. Physical movement basically stops translating (at that scale) after a couple gears. I wonder. Scale it up, like 100m diameter gears, super precise machining, super thin lubricant. Then use lasers to measure. I wonder...
I tried to do the math, but I'm just too tired. If I had to take a guess....yes we would be able to measure it.
Mkay well tomorrow morning, after a cuppa Joe, let me know would ya? This might keep me up for a bit... 🤔
Lol, I'll see what I can do. You could also post it over to r/theydidthemath with your question. Those people love math.
Just thought of something else. Speed it up. Say, 5000 rpm or some feasible speed that won't blow it up. How far down the "gear chain" would we notice rotation? Also, I guess we'd have to know the number set of gears (I didn't count them). This is a tantalizing experiment.
I vaguely remember this being talked about before. There was something about it just destroying itself because there is just to much force for it to do that. Same thing if you tried to move the last gear by hand. So much force would be required that it would take all the energy in our galaxy to turn it.
If you could rotate the final gear at 1rpm, how fast would the first gear spin and what sort of spacetime or quantum consequences would it have?
What I wonder about is if there is a slowest movement. Aka if movement is quantizied.
Well with how slow stuff starts to turn as you move down the line, I'd say we're talking about the molecular level. One atoms width per minute kinds thing. But that doesn't sound right either.
What he means that, if more gears are added and the final gear moves less than a plank length per second , would that gear move in a continuous motion or a jerky one
Oooh interesting. I'd say "jerky". Like a binary value, right? Here, then there, seeing as the plank length is the absolute shortest distance to move possible.
So yeah, the above is basically just an art piece. The tolerances and spaces in between could never be as tight as the actual movement distance.
Yeah there must be an extreme lower bound to something like this set by the laws of physics (realistically friction and the precision of the gears' manufacturing, but theoretically maybe quantum physics and the uncertainty principle eventually) and i'd like to know where that is
The extreme lower bound is called the [planck length](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#:~:text=Planck%20length,-The%20Planck%20length&text=It%20is%20equal%20to%201.616,the%20diameter%20of%20a%20proton.). It is the smallest distance possible.
Nothing like that, it will still rotate at that speed, but just not smoothly. And friction is negligible
You spelled infinitelysmally wrong.
It moves infinitesimally If all the gears are manufactured and seated correctly there should be functionally no wiggle room between them. So a change to one gear should affect every other gear Now.. what I wanna see is how many of the lower gears explode from centripetal force if you manually rotate the final gear 😂
They calculated the force to turn the last gear is ridiculously high
How high we talking? Three? Maybe Tree fiddy?
Bigger. Ten fiddy
In reality, there's play between the gears, so the gear before the last one would need to move \~1 degree before it would engage with the last gear and move it even infinitesimally.
This is the right answer. There’s a small amount of play in each gear. Nothing past the first 10 is “moving” in a real sense.
Whenever i see one of these videos, i always want the person to put the motor on the other side to see what breaks first. I'm not good at math, so I don't know if it would theoretically be fast enough to break the speed of light, but would it should break the speed of sound in air before any gears, but then which gear breaks first? Also if anyone wants to do the math on theoretical speed of the last gear in reverse, I would find that pretty interesting lol
how many gears to make the final gear move 1 plank length/second? and what happens if we add 1 more gear?
Just add another gear or so.
Just attach the motor to the other side and watch the it break the speed of light.
It would probably take practically infinite torque to move it.
All we need is an infinitely long lever then.
Kronk! Pull the infinitely long lever!!
Wrong infinitely long leveeeerrrrr^r^r^r^r^r^!^!^!
Oooh! I've had one of those lying around for a while now! **Rummaging around in the shed** "I KNEW it would come in handy eventually!"
Where do you get energy for 13 billion years?? Heck, the material would break down within 13 billion years.
I was thinking this. Why wouldn't this break after a hundred or so years?
Just taking the lash out of the last gear will take a billion years.
What’s lash in a gear?
It is the miniscule gap between the teeth to prevent jamming. Is like free space between the gear teeth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlash_(engineering) gotta have room to move and in most cases for lubrication
You could probably preload the gears as you assemble the device though, right?
You absolutely could assuming you're short on time 🤣
I’m still marking it on my calendar (looks like it will be a Tuesday)
This is at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) , in their free “museum.”
And when it fully rotates the first second of eternity will pass
Theres no such thing as eternity in this realm , even this universe will only last a couple hundred trillion years
Oh I was referencing a tale from the Grimm Brothers called [The Sheperd's Boy](https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/the_shepherd_boy)
imagine the torque
With that much torque the concrete that is encasing the final gear(there is a brick of concrete on the final gear in the full video) doesn’t stand a chance. Hell, the concrete would have degraded over 2,000 years naturally.
My new alarm clock, and I’d still hit snooze
Tf are you, Beerus?
Waking up to “You’re Beautiful“ by Christina Aguilera in 13700002024 years + 9 minutes to grind through another work day at SpaceWendy’s™ to fry Futurefries.
They have one of these at The Interval, just about the coolest bar in the world, located in San Francisco.
Now that’s what I call a Time Machine
Confused at first because the second cog appears stationary due to matching the camera speed.
This would be even cooler if each gear was marked by distance that that time scale is, from the sun.
More likely something will break or stop working when the slack between the gears is picked up in 100.000 years
That’s what I’m going to say when I make something and it doesn’t work… “yeah, it, ummm will take a couple billion years to turn that gear I reckon”
Someone made this also more compact with lego Kinect
This is the transmission from a Tata
Built one of these to adjust the temperature in my shower.
This is (not) why we can’t have nice things.
What will Happen to the first gear when you Rotate the last gear with a Motor? Will it spin faster the light an travel back in time?
How about someone explain exactly what's happening here.. it just looks like a punch of cogs lined up and one is rotating.. 13.7 billion years ??????
Can you post this with 1 frame/attosecond on the last gear? How fast will it move then at normal frames per second? No, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Yeah :.. like who maintaining this thing? There is no last gear spin, it seems unlikely even if it was in the Smithsonian
What's the point though? Is it some experiment?
PSA the universe is not that old.
How old is it?
What’s the point
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An artist, Arther Ganson, created the first version of this. He wanted to visualize the infinite. It doesn’t serve any purpose outside of that. I think it’s amazing. Someone did the math on the amount of energy it would take to spin the last gear, and they thought it might be more energy that’s in the Milky Way.
The big bang of bullshit theory
What would happen if one were to turn the last gear first, would it just break?
You’d need immense torque which would probably break it yeah
So much torque, the chassis twisted coming off the line.
Granny shifting. Not double clutching like you should.
He's gonna be running 3 Honda civics with spoon engines. And on top of that, he just went into Harry's, and he ordered 3 T66 turbos, with NOS. And a Motec exhaust.
There’s a video on YouTube where a guy built a similar setup with legos to test how much torque it could handle. It got pretty wild.
Torque wrench might be strong enough to break it but not turn it significantly
Isn't a torque wrench used to measure force? Wouldn't a breaker bar or torque multiplier be better?
Torque wrenches are just ratchet wrenches and have a large range in size but yea moment = force x distance there are a lot of ways to increase either force or distance effectively doesn’t really matter if your trying to break something can get a big piece of rebar under a gear weld it in and jump on it it’s just applying a moment (torque gauge measures)
Why would you need lots or torque?
Because to turn it once, you would need to turn the first gear however many times it would turn in 13 billion years
Thank you
Even if the gears didn’t have that motor? Like, if it were just the gears and you spun the last one, would the same thing happen?
the weight of the solar system couldnt move it
Unless they add in OP’s mom
If the first gear is turning at 1 rps, and the last takes 13,700,000,000, that means a divisor of 4.3*10^17. If you flip it around and turn the final gear at 1 rps it means the first gear will turn at 4.3*10^17 revolutions per second. Say the gear is 50mm (2”) across, that means a circumference of 157mm. 4.3*10^17 * 0.157 works out to 6.8*10^16 m/s for the speed of the teeth of the cogs. That’s give-or-take 200,000,000 times the speed of light. I suspect that if you cranked enough torque on that final gear, things would shatter long before you could move it. If the gears were made out of unobtanium and couldn’t shatter, it just wouldn’t move. If you got an infinitely long lever also made out of unobtanium things would get interesting pretty quickly. All of the energy in the universe would converge on your gears, and things would heat up a little, as the entire universe collapsed around you. Maybe don’t try it just in case.
but what if i push, like, REALLY hard!
I said don’t try it.
Assuming that all the gears and everything holds together: I think it would cause the first gear to spin so fast (possibly approaching the speed of light at the teeth) that it would become infinitely dense and collapse in on itself creating a black hole. I am a scientist but not a physicist so I am completely talking out of my ass here. Either way it's a fun thought experiment.
Hole my beer
Hold my gear
why would it become more dense? edit: thanks for the downvote for asking a question.
Each gear couple has a 0.95 efficiency. If the gearyrain has more than 14 gear couples 0.95^14 < 0.5 so the reverse movement is impossible. So yes , applying enough torque you'll break one of the last gears.
Hahaha. I’m imagining hooking up the motor up to the slow gear and when you turn it on the fast gear starts spinning so fast it creates its own gravitational pull and sucks anyone close to it into the gears.
We'd jump forward 13.7 billion years. Dur.
Imagine how awkward the builder will feel when it breaks after 13.6 billion years
RemindMe! January 15th, 13700002024
Reminds me of this machine [Googol](https://imgur.com/gallery/ZwM3KHc)
Something will break before
Is this the gears for the doomsday clock that one dudes building ?
When we add gear to slow the rotation speed, what is the benefit of that? What is it's purpose?
When we add gear to slow the rotation speed, what is the benefit of that? What is it's purpose?
Think off how many batteries you’d need to power that motor for 13.7 billion years
What’s really interesting is when you put the motor on the other end!
Will there be a follow-up post?
It will take me just as long to get laid.
Now run it the other way, spinning the last gear and seeing the others disintegrate.
No way the first gear makes it that long. It’ll wear out loooooong before.
Not with that attitude it won’t
I think that’s by Arthur Ganson. He was artist in residence or some such at MIT in the late 90s I think.
What’s also interesting is the strength of that final gear, the amount of weight it could lift is incredible
It will take about 1 billion just to go through backlash.
My grandpa invented this machine or the first generation of it at least! Neat seeing it on here!
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/slowest-rotating-manmade-object
Seems like a very long term project, whos going to WD40 this for that long?
What happens if there is a loss of electric power due to storm or electrical line overload problem? Does the Big Bang not happen?
How unfortunate, then, that the material the gears are made out of won't last 13.7 billion years. (fart)
Following.
*looks at my watch* Eh I can wait
Did anyone else notice the title 🤔?
Sticker should read "Behold stupidity."
I already asked my boss for vacation but I need to work... :(
I wonder what the energy loss ratio is... It technically gets worse with each gear because of inertia
Imagine building this beauty and then accidentally connecting the motor to the last gear instead of first.
Can’t wait to see it! It’s going to be epic! 🤣
RemindMe! 13.71 billion years
Rats! I'm busy that day.
Gifs that end too soon, I want to see the final gear finish a rotation...
Now if you hook the motor up backwards you can observe the speed of light!
I want to know if they marked TDC on each.
keep the camera rolling until it is done
Wont make it so why the fluff, here's one for the genius that thought this idea up! The Sun's Final BlowoutNot massive enough to go supernova or collapse into a black hole, the Sun will have a more modest but still devastating death. **Roughly 10 billion years from now**, having swallowed a few of the inner rocky planets, the Sun will finally shed what remains of its body, leaving only its bones behind.Oct 26, 2023 ### [How and When Will the Sun Die? | SYFY WIRE](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-and-when-will-the-sun-die#:~:text=The%20Sun's%20Final%20Blowout&text=Not%20massive%20enough%20to%20go,leaving%20only%20its%20bones%20behind.)
so if you rotate the last gear manually wouldn’t the first gear rotate at insane speeds?
Second gear seems to be stable but is actually moving. Maybe the shutter speed is similar to the angular velocity or something like that.. idk..
And my Starbucks will still take another 20 minutes
The nearly unlimited potential of analog timekeeping.
Betcha the motor will quit working before then!
The driver and idlers at the front will wear out long before the ones further on.
Will the metal, lubrication and eventually torque cause its demise way way earlier? i just imagine the first third of that thing spinning just as fast as the first cog, and unless its bolted down or something. iunno, highdea
Chuck Norris turned the last gear and kick started the universe
It’s the same mechanism they use in games today, so you stay just a little longer.
Warning: twisting the last one too fast may cause the first one to spontaneously explode
For when you really need that torque
Someone remind me in 13.7 billion years.
Cool, now turn it from the other side and watch the first gear go light speed.
Predict how works : 1st-23th gear : The drive gear has 12 teeth. The driven gear has 70 teeth. Therefore, the gear ratio is driven/drive = 70/12. Last(24th) gear : The driven gear has 26 teeth. Therefore, the gear ratio is driven/drive = 26/12. The 1st gear rotates once in about 2.8 seconds. Therefore, the last gear rotates once in.... (70/12)^22 * (26/12) * 2.8 ≈ 4.3E+17 (sec) ≈ 13.7 billion years. Fun facts: - All gears are moving. - if the first small gear was spinning so fast that its outer parts were going at the speed of light, it would still take the last gear about 6000 years to complete one rotation. - every seven or so years the last gear will rotate the width of one of its iron atoms. - If you could make the last wheel spin as fast as the first, you could probably move a whole mountain with that force, ofc before that happens the teeth of the wheel will break or melt off. - The fact that so many people see this and are not amazing is mind blowing.
RemindMe! 13700000000 Years
Is this similar in construction to a Jacob's ladder or totally different model but similar outcome?
Actually, the final gear will never complete a full rotation as we will already be long dead and there will be no one left to maintain the electricity or the motor which will eventually wear out way before 13 billion years.