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It also helps us understand that when we have an amazingly brilliant idea that nobody has ever thought of, we're probably talking bollocks. Loads of people have had exactly the same thought, when they thought of the idea for the first time, and loads of people have realised the thought wasn't as am...

It also helps us understand that when we have an amazingly brilliant idea that nobody has ever thought of, we're probably talking bollocks. Loads of people have had exactly the same thought, when they thought of the idea for the first time, and loads of people have realised the thought wasn't as ama...

We don't know what causes gravity and we don't know what turned Bessler's wheel.
Maybe another way of looking at it, is to say that the force that will be causing the wheel to turn, is the same force that causes gravity.
They are both the effect of the unknown force, one doesn't cause the other.

I had the same message in my older computer. Now that i have a more recent computer, i haven't had it since. I think it is very unlikely, but it may be worth trying, when you click right on the background, and select "zoom in on scene", does it zoom in on the scene, or do you find yourself...

It wasn't easy to walk to the nearest spring, to get water. Everyone was going to different springs, because nobody knew where the nearest spring was. There were no maps showing the location of the springs. There was no ancient knowledge indicating where the nearest spring was, there was just a myth...

If you click on "general Discussion", just below the title "General Discussion", it says "New Topic". Click on "New Topic" and you should be good to go. If you want it in Community Buzz, which means only registered members have access, you will find "New ...

Sam Peppiatt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:19 am
Norman; Fletcher is right, you should start a topic of your own, it's easy------------------Sam

If Sam and I can do it, it must be easy, because we haven't got a bloody clue.

Do you have the original text in German?

You are right. If the figures you use, are the dimensions of the wheel and the axle/pulley with the rope wrapped around it, there is no way anyone would confuse that with a 5 to 1 ratio. Therefore, there must have been something additional that was responsible for giving the 5 to 1 ratio. That not o...

daxwc wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:16 pm
Maybe I don’t understand your argument do you mean axle diameter to floor pulley diameter?

No, i mean wheel diameter to the axle diameter that has the rope attached to it. The pulley doing the pulling of the rope.

I think attaching a rope to a pulley reduced more than 4 times, would correspond better with a 5 to 1 ratio being responsible for the slow lifting, than a block and tackle that nobody mentions, or additional pulleys that weren't mentioned either. Obviously we can only speculate, and any possibility ...

Robinhood46: The only thing i find interesting in the debate, is where does the 1 to 5 ratio mentioned in the text come from? because i really can't see it coming from the different pulley diameters. [/color] For me there is only two possibilities: 1) A block and tackle was used even though the pic...

I have an idea for you guys , 3 pulleys with diameters as mentioned , sounds like a simple build , force and distance in vs force and distance out , record a video report back . Are you seriously suggesting we don't know that the distance in, will be identical to the distance out, excluding any str...

It appears that i am wrong, to not like certain aspects of a pulley system being called a mechanical advantage, because they are considered to be mechanical advantages. There does appear to be some ambiguity in the text found on this site; https://hzpt.com/does-pulley-size-increase-mechanical-advant...

I think my problem is referring to these advantages as "mechanical advantage". Obviously there is an advantage to pushing or pulling, a load on a wagon, as apposed to carrying it or dragging it along the ground. What is the ratio of the mechanical advantage created by doing so? What is th...