For some reason it won't let me post videos in the Off topic section.

Cool Candle Trick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_649009&feature=iv&src_vid=DsOU0WEc6OU&v=r4wlwNP1YtA

Mirror Trick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_221189&feature=iv&src_vid=DsOU0WEc6OU&v=VTONKZkaVX4

Gyroscope Stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DsOU0WEc6OU

Cloud Trick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_508169&feature=iv&src_vid=DsOU0WEc6OU&v=z4M1Rr3SWIg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHlAJ7vySC8

Quote from Ravenous Emu on October 31st, 2013, 09:36 PM

Gyroscope Stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsOU0WEc6OU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHlAJ7vySC8

These two fascinate me.  I asked over at Smart Scarecrow tonight, not how it works, but why it works and got a smartass answer that it is simple Newtonian mechanics.  Sorry Charlie, there is nothing simple about it--fundamental yes, but nothing simple.

And according to Joseph Newman, everything is made up of gyroscopic particles, way smaller than an electron, quark, boson or even photon.  Sure wish I could get my mind around it.

http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/gyroscopes/htmlgyroscopes.html
"In 1974 Eric Laithwaite was invited to give a Royal Institution lecture. In this he performed a series of demonstrations involving gyroscopes. He claimed that the outcome of these demonstrations showed that Newton's laws of motion are restricted to motion in straight lines where there is no rate of change of acceleration, and that circular motion has some force all of its own.

Gyroscopic motion does however follow Newton's laws of motion this is shown through the repetition of Laithwaite's demonstrations and explanation of the subsequent motion using Newtonian Mechanics."


http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/boomerangs.htm
"...I do not share Professor Laithwaite's views on Newtonian mechanics as applied to gyroscopic motion."
Dr. Hugh Hunt