RE: Weight Loss
Bill McMurtry ( weber@powerup.com.au )
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 20:45:29 +1000
Hello all,
I would suggest anyone interested should perform the Laithwaite
demonstration for themselves, I did. It is a remarkable experience to be
able to lift a heavy spinning weight above your head with little effort. I
would venture to suggest that a spinning gyroscopic weight of 1 ton, which
obviously could not be lifted 1 inch (by myself anyway) could be lifted
easily using Laithwaite's
technique. Now that would make for an excellent party trick! But where does
the energy come from to perform this superhuman feat? Is it drawn from the
energy of the spinning mass - if so then the period of rotation of the mass
would be less after the lift. Is this so??
Bill.