Scientific apparatus - What is it?

Ironclad · **#41** by **Ironclad** » Jan 18, 2012 10:26 pm

Perhaps you collide it into an indifferential thermopile, see what strange particles come off it? :scratch:

Mazille · **#42** by **Mazille** » Jan 18, 2012 10:29 pm

campermon wrote:
campermon wrote:We found it in a cardboard box full of other mysterious stuff............

No, I meant how did you find out what it is?

I am terribly sorry. I must have hit the "edit" button instead of the "quote" button. Campermon, if you could please send me the message you originally intended to be there again, I'll edit it back in again. :oops:

This is highly embarassing. Very, very sorry.

Edit: Nevermind. Found the old version and reinstated it. Again, terribly sorry.

I meant to say, though, that I wanted to know how you found out what it was, not where you found it.

Onyx8 · **#43** by **Onyx8** » Jan 19, 2012 2:25 am

You're a science teacher; plug the fucker in and see what happens.

hoopy frood · **#44** by **hoopy frood** » Jan 19, 2012 2:56 am

orpheus · **#45** by **orpheus** » Jan 19, 2012 3:33 am

Onyx8 wrote:You're a science teacher; plug the fucker in and see what happens.

Somehow that brings to mind the famous last words, "hey guys, watch this!"

campermon · **#46** by **campermon** » Jan 19, 2012 6:51 am

Mazille wrote:

I meant to say, though, that I wanted to know how you found out what it was, not where you found it.

I had a hunch that the 2 bars were for connecting wire and therefore I asserted that it must produce a current. I next asked myself thequestion, 'how can you make a current from a bit of metal?' and thought of a couple of ways; shining light on it or heating it. I then googled for 'antique physics apparatus' which lead me to to the website I linked to. From there I searched through the sections on optics and heat.

:sherlock:

twistor59 · **#47** by **twistor59** » Jan 19, 2012 8:16 am

campermon wrote:
Mazille wrote:

I meant to say, though, that I wanted to know how you found out what it was, not where you found it.

I had a hunch that the 2 bars were for connecting wire and therefore I asserted that it must produce a current. I next asked myself thequestion, 'how can you make a current from a bit of metal?' and thought of a couple of ways; shining light on it or heating it. I then googled for 'antique physics apparatus' which lead me to to the website I linked to. From there I searched through the sections on optics and heat.

And I looked at my labtech's fingernails - normally well manicured, now split. Some heavy lifting perhaps. Or dragging a body.
Coffee stain on the lab coat. Hmmm - drinking coffee perhaps
Good job Sherlock. How DID you do that fake suicide thing ?

The_Metatron · **#48** by **The_Metatron** » Jan 19, 2012 8:35 am

orpheus wrote:
Onyx8 wrote:You're a science teacher; plug the fucker in and see what happens.

Somehow that brings to mind the famous last words, "hey guys, watch this!"

I'm reminded of:

A good friend told me about an incident when he was a boy, with his older brother.

The older brother had got his hands on an entire box of MagicCube flash bulbs and took them all apart, obtaining a small pile of the bare pyrotechnic flash bulbs. My friend had walked into their bedroom in time to see his older brother holding a mallet above his head, ready to smash the pile to see what would happen. His older brother yelled "Get out of here! I'm doing an experiment.".

So, my friend retreated to the living room. In a few moments, he heard a thump, and saw a blinding light flooding from the crack under his bedroom door. Something like you'd see in some sort of ghost movie special effect. He then heard his dumb older brother yell "Help! I'm blind!"

The stupid ass has smashed that whole pile of flash bulbs with that mallet, igniting most of them at once. The flash blinded him temporarily, burned his eyebrows off, and burned a hole through the table.

I just about crashed my goddamned car when my buddy told me that story, I was laughing so hard.

Doubtdispelled · **#49** by **Doubtdispelled** » Jan 19, 2012 1:07 pm

You couldn't make it up!

Doubtdispelled · **#50** by **Doubtdispelled** » Jan 19, 2012 1:14 pm

Talking of scientific apparatus, I came across this web site the other day, and the explanation of how this anti-gravity experiment works made no sense to me. Can you help, Camper? Mind you, I haven't tried it yet, but I don't understand why the centre of gravity should 'move down', or what starts the funnels rolling if the centre of gravity really is in the middle. :scratch:

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn · **#51** by **PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn** » Jan 19, 2012 2:45 pm

Doubtdispelled wrote:Talking of scientific apparatus, I came across this web site the other day, and the explanation of how this anti-gravity experiment works made no sense to me. Can you help, Camper? Mind you, I haven't tried it yet, but I don't understand why the centre of gravity should 'move down', or what starts the funnels rolling if the centre of gravity really is in the middle.

the sticks form a V, therefore as the funnels move down it they get lower. so technically the funnel is falling.

now provided the hight difference between the amount the funnels fall is bigger than the hight of the extra book, then it'll roll "uphill" because it is technically falling

maybe the diagram makes more sense

Doubtdispelled · **#52** by **Doubtdispelled** » Jan 19, 2012 3:30 pm

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn wrote:the sticks form a V

Doh! So they do. :shifty:

That's what I get for not paying enough attention. Thanks!

The_Metatron · **#53** by **The_Metatron** » Jan 19, 2012 3:33 pm

TANSTAAFL, once more.

campermon · **#54** by **campermon** » Jan 19, 2012 5:09 pm

twistor59 wrote:
campermon wrote:
Mazille wrote:

I meant to say, though, that I wanted to know how you found out what it was, not where you found it.

I had a hunch that the 2 bars were for connecting wire and therefore I asserted that it must produce a current. I next asked myself thequestion, 'how can you make a current from a bit of metal?' and thought of a couple of ways; shining light on it or heating it. I then googled for 'antique physics apparatus' which lead me to to the website I linked to. From there I searched through the sections on optics and heat.

And I looked at my labtech's fingernails - normally well manicured, now split. Some heavy lifting perhaps. Or dragging a body.
Coffee stain on the lab coat. Hmmm - drinking coffee perhaps
Good job Sherlock. How DID you do that fake suicide thing ?

Just A Theory · **#55** by **Just A Theory** » Jan 20, 2012 10:39 am

orpheus wrote:It belongs to us. Give it back.

It belongs in a museum!

Paul · **#56** by **Paul** » Jan 20, 2012 10:43 am

The_Metatron wrote:The stupid ass has smashed that whole pile of flash bulbs with that mallet, igniting most of them at once. The flash blinded him temporarily, burned his eyebrows off, and burned a hole through the table.

"We're going to need another Timmy!"

rainbow · **#57** by **rainbow** » Jan 20, 2012 10:54 am

It is clearly an Abiogeniscope.

orpheus · **#58** by **orpheus** » Jan 20, 2012 1:25 pm

The_Metatron wrote:TANSTAAFL, once more.

TANSTAAFL?

The_Metatron · **#59** by **The_Metatron** » Jan 20, 2012 1:44 pm

orpheus wrote:
The_Metatron wrote:TANSTAAFL, once more.

TANSTAAFL?

Indeed. TANSTAAFL.

orpheus · **#60** by **orpheus** » Jan 20, 2012 2:47 pm

The_Metatron wrote:
orpheus wrote:
The_Metatron wrote:TANSTAAFL, once more.

TANSTAAFL?

Indeed. TANSTAAFL.

Ah, thank you.

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