Eric Laithwaite

Video en el que se muestra a Eric Laithwaite haciendo una demostracion de su giroscopio, en un documental para la bbc.
mas http://enzodavid.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/eric-laitwaite-y-las-leyes-de-newton/

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• Laithwaite
• bbc
• documental
• giroscopio

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@flowerbower

Tesla was no mere showman.

A/C current?

Tesla coil?

Tesla units in MRI's?

Niagra Falls- the first Hydroelectric power plant?

What have you invented or patented?

As for Laithwaite,their complaint was not the content of his lecture,it was that he dared to question their dogma.

Come on,a man(Newton) that lived before electricity and real microscopes decrees laws that CANNOT be broken?

And people say religion is dogmatic.

[noeuro]

@scasired Yes you're not really understanding what I'm getting at here. Laithwaite understood that there were no new forces involved and that the mathematics of gyroscopes is well established. You really ought to watch the rest of the film, especially the end where they actually do the needed experiments at an academic institution. Nobody is challenging any of the laws of physics. Especially not the late Professor Laithwaite.

[w3bst3r123]

ok, so what is going on here? Why can he lift the wheel? It seems so easy to recreate this experiment, has anyone done this yet??

[payitforwardeddie]

Professor Eric Laithwaite. Genius.

Only remembered, apparently, for gyroscopes. I remember seeing him demonstrate his linear motor on the BBC Christmas Lectures. Genius.

[scasired]

@noeuro Gyroscopes behave exactly as the physics text book says they should. There is no mystery. No unsolved equations. Laithwaite lost respect and his good reputation, not because he was making claims about gyroscopes that went 'against the tide', but because he was making claims that were in direct conflict with long-established and well-understood laws of physics.

[noeuro]

@scasired I understand what you're saying. However, that is what Laithwaite was pushing for explanation. Instead of being bothered to investigate and actually do the math, his peers simply ignored the issued and branded him a heretic. (Where have we seen this before?) If you watch the film to the end you will see that 25 years later Laithewaite and a fellow scientist managed to complete the math to show what is happening and that the effect does not violate any of Newton's laws.

[scasired]

@noeuro It is clear from the re-enacted demonstrations depicted in this film clip that Laithwaite, a respected electrical engineer, was trying to cast doubt on the conventional scientific wisdom about gyroscopes, even suggesting that gyroscopes lose weight when they're spinning. It's no wonder the scientific community was up in arms.

[noeuro]

@scasired if you watched the entire film you would know that Laithwaite did not claim any violation of Newton's 3rd law.

[scasired]

The physics of gyroscopes is already well-understood, with credit given to the folks who invented vector analysis. There is no hint of a challenge to Newton's third law of motion as Laithwaite erroneously claims. Just as a force is defined as the first time derivative of momentum, so torque is defined as the first time derivative of angular momentum. From the perspective of vector quantities, the behavior of gyroscopes makes perfect sense.

[vexamatic]

We know that these gyro's do in fact follow Newton, but the question remains that if a craft could achieve a circular spin like that of a gyroscope, then the implication is that it would take very little energy to propel it upwards like a ufo. No need for primitive rocket propulsion. If an electric engine could maintain the spin with something like a nuclear reactor, the upward push could be done with any number of means?

[jetpoweredgriffin]

How can so many "scientists" reject all that is old whenever it's convenient and then hang onto Newton as if he were infallible?

Surely old apple-head(be offended if you must) would step back and look at the current telescopes,microscopes and computers and think,

" Hmmm,there may be more to all this than I thought ! "

Call him "SIR"(but not "saint") and make him infallible....

Sound familiar?

Must we always exalt man&his opinions instead of God?

(not to be confused with mere religion,of course!)