{"id":5665,"date":"2010-06-04T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2010-06-04T03:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T08:00:21","slug":"next-up-the-behemyth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5665","title":{"rendered":"Next Up, the Behemyth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think a larger version of this should be called the Leviatron<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o1ocO3Jf26I?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o1ocO3Jf26I?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Neat, even with the overindulgence of &#8220;let&#8217;s enclose this in a tube to prove there are no wires.&#8221;  Two things, though.  1) It&#8217;s not antigravity  2) The blurb about torque isn&#8217;t right \u2014 it&#8217;s not that the spinning exerts a torque, it&#8217;s that the spinning means there is angular momentum.  You need a torque to change angular momentum, and the torque present because of the same-facing poles is not enough to flip the top.  Just like gravity exerts a torque, but cannot flip the spinning top, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think a larger version of this should be called the Leviatron You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Neat, even with the overindulgence of &#8220;let&#8217;s enclose this in a tube to prove there are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5665\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}