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Nice, you mentioned the aeroplane propellers! That's a good example too for this action/reaction effects of engines. Yes, they have noticeable back-torque ( especially on setting take-off thrust and on the roll ) and can have noticeable gyroscopic forces in the big ones like the single engine plane...

About heat transfer via internal stress in materials... There are moons of Jupiter and/or Saturn which heated up by the gravitational effects causing stretch/stress forces inside the body of such moon. This info is just popped into my mind at random. That's interesting, maybe my thinkering is not f...

But I will start with this .. Newton's Laws of Motion, from memory and paraphrased by me .. 1. ( Newton's Inertia Law ) A Body at rest will remain at rest, and a Body in motion will remain in motion, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force vector i.e. a net force .. that force must be external to ...

Writing in Progress .. In many a sense Energy budgeting was what the sim-experiments were about wrt the horizontal swingers violating WEEP, and Noether symmetries, at the local level - where PE was gained ( Total Energy increased ) in a mechanical system ( Energy from the background ) which could th...

Hey Gregory .. very interesting thought experiments - I do have some immediate thoughts and comments about them ( still refining, more coffee ) but will hold off relying in any detail for a couple of days if that's ok, or only take a quick shallow dive into the rabbit hole lol .. Long weekend here (...

I choose to walk a middle line and try to work within Newton's Laws of Motion and Classical Physics and Mechanics - and to do that the Energy Budget must balance, even if it is not obvious what and where that energy enters the system from .. at least I can, and have done, made a best estimate that ...

Yes, I absolutely agree. In that sim the balance beam is just a passive inertial component, and its function is not like the MoI variators. I used MoI variators before during different experiments, just not in the form of the A-prime. Yes, it's important to test these out separately first. They hav...

Gregory .. to your previous - I hear yuh, and feel the pain - it can be exhausting research and more than tests the resilience, breaks help .. if energy can be made to just disappear ( usually to some background ) then it should be able to be made to appear ( also usually from some background ) - bu...

And at the risk of stating the obvious .. Bessler didn't have a sim program to put limits on him .. But like all of us he used his mind-sim to plan and visualize how his chosen mechanics might work out - his imagination and observational skills were his allies .. imo, a particular mechanical action ...

As much as thought experiments can be fun and take us places, the A-Prime first mover with bounce factor is imo the mission critical component that must pass muster to give this theory of a runner legs and a fighting chance of working ..

ok, now I'm going to discuss a simple and well known mechanical metaphor for the Swingers and their proposed function in my theory of a runner .. * many moons ago when I was a preschooler my parents gave me a gift - iirc they called it a " Whirligig " - it was a spinning top that you press...

Apologies .. internet has been down .. I agree, ultimately this wheel ( sim ) suffers from the same problem... There is no more energy input into the system after the starting push , and although it moves, transfers, and recirculates its internal energy in an effective or clever way, that still does...

Hey, thanks! Was really a great moment to come up with this sim! I agree, ultimately this wheel suffers from the same problem... There is no more energy input into the system after the starting push, and although it moves, transfers, and recirculates its internal energy in an effective or clever wa...

So if i am internalizing this correct , you are highlighting the smoothness and efficiency of the two connected pendulums and weight , because there's no violent collision against the wheel and because its a smoother restricted action due to pendulums , in total there is less abrupt behavior ? Morn...

Hi Gregory .. wow, you put plenty of work and fine detail into building that sim - it looks complex to most but I think I get what you are trying to do - I did watch it stretch its legs more than a few times, and read over your descriptions and analysis as I went so I had a solid mind map of what I ...