Holy levitating Slinky!

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  1. Nathan

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    In this series of slow motion clips, you can see that if you hold a Slinky by one end and drop it, the bottom end doesn't actually move until the top end catches up with it.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiyMuHuCFo4&hd=1]Awesome HD Slinky Slow-Mo - YouTube[/ame]

    Holy levitating Slinky!
     
  2. Friskie

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    #2 Friskie, Jun 21, 2012
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    And I thought I wasted inordinate amounts of time participating in various experiments in velocity, inertia, compression, balistics, arc, spin rate and pointless score keeping. golf
     
  3. Justa Jim

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    For some reason I just don't see how the bottom would not move downward, once the entire thing was released, but then I'm not a PhD. I actually have one of those and am going to try it. Not that I don't believe him or anything.

    Jim
     
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    Slinky's were brought to earth by aliens.... Actually, accidently left by alien kids..... They never pick up after themselves either. We have yet to discover the full attributes of the slinky. Some scientists believe they were portable worm holes.

    Scientists someday hope to marry the Escher Ascending / Descending stair with the slinky in hopes of creating the first perpetual motion machine that will provide us with unlimited energy...

    Government funding for slinky research continues to this day. :Thumbsup:
     
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    So if you hang off the bottom of a slinky and release the top you can hover?:drool
     
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    Fun stuff.....
     
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    I just don't believe it. :nonod:
     
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    Believe it..........
     
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    I think the spring has something to do with it... I think there is enough "pull" upward under tension, that it balances it out...
     
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    Who would have thought the slinky was the missing link to fight gravity. lol

    This is just like the show "The Big Bang theory" but no good jokes.
     
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    There's jokes in Big Bang Theory???
     

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