this is AWESOME…
When he spins this heavy wheel something very cool happens. Many of us have spun gyroscopes and seen them balance and this is much cooler in the large scale. It is called gyro precession and here is a bit more about this effect in physics and what happens in the video:
In this video I attempt to lift a 19kg (42 lbs) wheel over my head one-handed while it’s spinning at a few thousand RPM. This replicates an earlier experiment by Professor Eric Laithwaite. He claimed the wheel was ‘light as a feather’ and could not be explained by Newton’s Laws. I wanted to find out for myself what I really felt like.
The experimenter here goes by the name of Veritasium. That is a playful moniker on like an element named that. He is famous on YouTube and really is a true science fan.
Let’s see how this thing works in the video on page 2
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Now what would happen if a second 19kg oppositely spinning flywheel were attached? Would the assembly still feel light and would the rotational vector cancel?
Fscinating
That’s would be a good way to design a saucer craft. You have a large horizontal spinning tube that holds smaller verticle spinning weights. The centrifugal force will reduce the crafts weight and stabilize it. Now we just need a constant source of energy, rather than a combustible…
Huge gold and silver batterys charged by the sun.
The guys channel on YouTube is veritasium. Hardly “anti gravity”
The Nazis tried something like that before.
Kinda, it failed though.
But then again, we do have more tech than they did.