Machine with Concrete - Arthur Ganson

This machine was inspired by dreaming about gear ratios and considering the unexpected implications of exponential powers.

Each worm/worm gear pair reduces the speed of the motor by 1/50th. Since there are 12 pairs of gears, the final speed reduction is calculated by (1/50)12. The implications are quite large. With the motor turning around 200 revolutions per minute, it will take well over two trillion years before the final gear makes but one turn. Given the truth of this situation, it is possible to do anything at all with the final gear, even embed it in concrete.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sculpture
• Kinetic
• Art

[postalgbv]

You need a warning sign on this machine! a bright yellow sticker warning people not to put their finger into the last gear.

[malakiblunt]

now this is conceptual art.

[silentsniper441]

turn concrete block...first gear now a black hole

[sk83502]

i thought about waiting there until the last weel turns. but then i had to go to the toilet and got hungry...

[matt9741399]

Would have been nice if the first few stages weren't geared down so much.

[nodariel]

I've seen this in real life. Awesome piece of art.

[Mistraker]

He's going to have to replace a broken rod in about a trillion years. He'll be sorry then.

[thefoxdude]

@xeeweexRC edit: drive a car with 0,000001 kilometer per hour ;)

[wendysimmens]

@scotterdoos it is moving, lookgin closely enough

[lemmen1989]

is there a another gear inside the concrete, or what, ?

[deepcangler]

@scotterdoos Are you blind?

[scotterdoos]

Fake, at 0:05 you can see that the left half of the shaft is moving, while the right half does not. Only the first 2 sets of worm drives are turning. Everything else is disconnected from the motor.