Click Clack kinetic sculpture giant Newton's Cradle toy

[Sandarpan]

Now do 3...

[MegaHappypotter]

If I had a dollar for every pixel in this video I would have have one dollar

[MegaRYANNNNNNN]

big balls

[nothinbuteverythin]

pull it back as far as it will go and throw it down see what happens

[crazedmiget]

I have one on my desk

[55vampirelover]

So... like, if you stuck your hand in between one of those things would it hurt?

[kidnowbig]

dont make it so faster coz it can crack your balls )

[abombinasnowman]

That noise is amazing :D Me gusta

[mcduff21543]

Mythbusters did it will ball bearing, at this size scall it was only off by a few percent effececy compaired to a normal size cradle

[BruceGray]

@mcduff21543 Yes, I know about the Mythbusters version. Adam and Jamie told me about that episode when I was filmed with them for a new TV show recently.

[danielwhitman]

they did it on ed eddn eddy qith swingsets and boulders

[nsugathadasa]

The oscillation is transmitted to the other pendulums that are supposed to stay still.

This is because the support structure is not solid enough.

[shermy2]

Are you boring guys??? go in a stripclup!

[THEgrandPOOPbah]

[inset iCarly reference here]

[benty1997]

okej im began whit watching mikael jackson and know im seeing gigants balls WTF!!!

[Esuper1]

they would work better if the lines were longer. Like twice as much.Gives the center balls more time to set up together for next hit.

[Wlfwnd91]

Can you build me a sex swing?

[zevon1964]

How could you dislike this!  Good job!

[joshua123ldrago]

Its Spencer's Newton Balls

[Kiara1331]

Dude no matter what you do with it the kinetic energy will always be lost at one point.

[omgalreadyinuse]

this might have worked better if you had longer ropes

[MucusFelidae]

the only large size balls available are of stone, granite for example but methinks they would break.

[spencerc6]

I'm planning on making a 6' tall version, had considered using bowling balls, but it seems like they're too soft.

[starmanbridges]

@spencerc6

don't waste your time and money using bowling balls. I built one standing about ten feet tall for a film i made, and bowling balls do not work after the third or forth hit.

the problem is the inner center of the balls are composed of some sort of dense cork. this material interrupts the kinetic energy. the energy is forced to go around the ball and transfer to the next one instead of going directly through it.

keep the faith, and good luck.

[hosewater10]

it's modern art mann..... 

[Sano22n]

looks like dropping balls.......

[wakisaki]

your balls are so big

[therealandycook]

balls of steel

[megadudeley]

next, make a one with bowling pins

[jupiterscastle]

hey man you were so cool , gimme five , i mean five dollars

[kalebsta]

hey, its spencer shay!

[ICHIGOZAMA6994]

maby the metal transfers the energy more efectivley other then the bowling balls rubber inside

[TheMrBlinx]

Balls are too soft; energy transfer suffers.

[007foppe]

metal work better i i do think

[torosyan]

my balls hurt

[ImprezaImpresser]

PONG PONG PONG PONG PONG PONG PONG PONG PONG PONG PONG PONG PONG.

That is all.

[TheKrockmaster]

click clack? its called newtons

[TheToasterWaffel]

Fun

[LBTennis]

Wheres the giant desk for this?

[skiierboy01]

good, idea, but the material bowling balls are made out of is made to ABSORB energy (is in being dropped on the lane floor), which is why this didn't work so well.

[aqualuv69]

for i carly rember

[santiagodebellavista]

i never found newton´s cradle near a little interesting, it´s just logic

[DarrenDiAntonio]

Use some Solid Metal to prevent them from fidgeting.

[Vleesball]

balls are hollow..wood inside i guess ? you need full metal balls.

and string needs to stretch ..they are kinda lose cause of the weight the balls have..

nice effort tho.

[Zwank36]

balls are touching.

[wiez5]

for a second i thought the laws of physics were broken on that last swing. but i realized that the balls hit at different times causing two balls to rise on the opposite side.

[habitatskater90210]

well duh this is a newtons cradle

[basis64]

well they are equal. But hollow so energy gets lost anyway

[Olciia97]

wow. That balls is big

[mito0101]

I won't put my nuts there XD hahah just kidding.

[TarrHitsJellyWorld]

"With every action there's an equal and opposite reaction."

[MoonEyes2k]

Actually the laws of conservation of energy and momentum, which has noting to do with Newtons third law.

[1Ryon]

what if you put water, sand or bee bees in a middle one it would stop the sway totaly.

[heistsy]

If the centre was a beehive it would most certainly get squashed on the first swing, and the Queen would send out her bee bees to sting all humans

[stopglobalswarming]

It needs metal ones to work right.

[CODMASTA]

Balls of Steel....Balls Balls

[CODMASTA]

Time to kick ass and chew some bubble gum, and im all outta gum!

[Popupkille]

Those balls arent dense enough.

[supermatthew222]

its not the density, it how much energy they put back out compared to how much they absorb.

If bowling balls were made out of steel, they would bounce down the lane probably causing allot of damage to the floor.

doesn't really have to do with the density.

[Popupkille]

Well. To build on your arguement.

if the balls in this video had more density, they would put more energy back out. If they aren't dense enough, they will just absorb the energy, like these are doing.

or is that caused by another property of the balls? Please correct me if I'm wrong here. OFC there has to be a limit to how dense they can be. But I would think thats what matters.

[supermatthew222]

well density does have an effect in terms of mass, ie a ping pong ball vs a golf ball, but its another physical property that determines how much energy a material puts back out.

ie a super bouncy ball will have a very high raito if energy put back out, whereas a tempur pillow will have almost no energy put back out.

what people may not realize is that steel is bouncy, not like rubber, but allot more than a bowling ball.

[Popupkille]

Ok. I follow you on that. But at least these balls do not have the same amount of the right properties, to transfer enough energy to the next. And because they are not equal to each other, the transfer of kinetic energy fades quickly, and it gets unstable. Do we agree on this? :P

Not sure if I formulated this the right way, but I hope you get my point.

The balls should at least share the same density, and have other similar properties, for this sculpture to work as intended.

[ellhow]

It needs balls of steel

[lorekingwn]

Yeah, too much energy loss... but the effort used to create this giant version of Newton's Cradle is simply impressive.

[amfikz]

wtf

[BruceGray]

Yeah, thats my sculpture, and Yeah I know it could work better, but I made it on a whim with found object bowling balls. I could improve it by using the exact same size balls, with no finger holes, but I don't feel like it. At one time it was lined up perfectly by laser, but I rented it out to the HBO show Six Feet Under, and the movie Raise Your Voice, so it got a bit "off" after being moved around so much.

[zeratul575]

u built it how much money u get for it being on a movie and a ty show?

[htomerif]

@BruceGray I dont think finger holes and imperfect alignment have much to do with it. It has mostly to do with the energy absorbing materials a bowling ball is made of and the inelasticity of the collisions. (probably)

[Lexphoto]

It doesnt seem very "kinetic" but that could be fixed with proper materials i bet.

[sean6006]

Too much energy loss in noise and ropes, the balls also are probably lacking the proper consistency, but its a neat toy, i would get one for my living room!

[rockpoplop222]

put your handa in there i dare u 2

[butterflynflower]

Sweet!

[geraldsjackass]

Nice

[sk8endorphin]

it dosnt really have a goal so it cant really 'work or not work' technically

[luvsean13]

its newtons cradle but giant

[matthew11174]

it not newtons cradle,its more like newtons hammock

[Ryandri0d]

No, its newtons big swinging ball sack.

[ThatMonsterMan]

bowling balls are the wrong density

[alecTHElion]

yeah the struture needs to be as accurate as posible to demonstrate the princibles involved with minimal interferance, ie equal and non-ellastic cables

[stirlingsteamboy08]

it might run if you strap the three balls to gether

[luvsean13]

it's called newton's cradle

[coetzee92]

the cable is too short

[stirlingsteamboy08]

it doeent keep going(crap)

[luvsean13]

because they are bowling balls

[Ijustneedthatsong]

great...

[harrynicholas]

When I was hit on the head with a cricket ball (I was 12) it cleared the delusion I was having that I was Albert Sweitzer. Since then I've worked hard all my life to become a baby-sitter so I can 'rock the cradle', I've only just found out that Newtons cradle doesn't have any babies in it, it is in fact Newtons Swing. He didn't use this term because of the wife-swapping associations it has.

[EyeOnTheTV]

good idea using bowling balls. However, I do not think that the material they are made out of is hard enough to efficiently transfer the kinetic energy. Now if those were all solid steel like the mi nature version this is based on - it would work much better.

[bone656]

Fail!

[FlyingDuckMan360]

can u do this with more than 5 balls? I bet u wuld get a slower raction for the energy to move

[runie360]

you can use more but the strength lowers the more there are

[speedaddict2008]

Imagine one of those balls hitting YOUR balls! OUCH!

[jackkjack]

not work ehh?

not metal ehh?

[jhzab666]

I always thought it would be cool for it to be done with 5 wrecking balls.

[Ingeniosis]

rofl. nice idea

[bluetorch13]

I was waiting for the balls to hit the guy's face... more fun!

[pjebarakus]

its not optimized :)

[F00dTube]

You need heavier balls. Now it completely misses the point of the experiment.

[krirre]

use your balls then? :D

[F00dTube]

I take that as a.. I don't how to take that. :p

[krirre]

Hehe, just kidding ^^

[vimizum]

was ist das für ein scheiß Video!!!!!!!

[hl2alyx]

wow, so much energy is lost during THOSE collisions

[154309]

i think that the bowling balls are the right size but the strings aint long enough... he need to raise it so he could put longer stings on it...

[smugowa]

HAHAHA cos nie wyszlo :P

[mnorth1]

Maybe if the strings were longer?

Pretty cool.

[putdownyourguns]

cool

[daapz]

Neat :)