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[raaaid]

this is my 8th year trying to build an inverted pendulum so i can hold a box in an edge

well doing it static not using a gyroscope seems imposible but i dont accept it and keep and keep

is this good or bad?

[raaaid]

this is my 8th year trying to build an inverted pendulum so i can hold a box in an edge

well doing it static not using a gyroscope seems imposible but i dont accept it and keep and keep

is this good or bad?

[AndyJWest]

The alchemists spent centuries trying to turn base metals into gold. They eventually discovered it was impossible, and invented chemistry - a useful result, just not the one they intended.

Having said that, I'd think you might do better to investigate things that other people think are impossible, rather than the things that everyone knows are.

[WTE_Galway]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by AndyJWest:
The alchemists spent centuries trying to turn base metals into gold. They eventually discovered it was impossible . </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

.. a Tokamac could potentially do it

Although the other way, converting Gold to Lead in a particle accelerator, is likely to be simpler as its much easier to add protons and increase the atomic number than the other way around.

I think most of the "creating gold in an accelerator" experiments used elements with a lower atomic number, barium rings a bell there.

You most likely would have to reduce the atomic number of lead by by bombarding with electrons, converting some of the protons to neutrons and ending up with a gold isotope, almost certianly a radioactive one.

Been to long since I did physics but yeah not impossible just highly impractical

[AndyJWest]

OK, they discovered you couldn't do it with chemistry. Mea maxima Culpa.

Actually, I seem to recall the 'Gold to Lead' thing had been done somewhere...

[raaaid]

well yesterday i was feeling depressed due to a failed experiment

but with slight modifications the experiment today has been a succes

now i think its pretty easy to hold a box even in its corner

the reason its not been done is probably cause nobodys even tried hard enough

i see my future as an artist so ill be able to not give a damn about what other think and be a baldy with two huge crests

[AndyJWest]

Actually, if you want a box that will balance on a corner, it isn't impossible - if you were to make it of very light construction, and fill it with hydrogen or helium, so it was lighter than air, a small weight added in a corner would then make your 'inverted pendulum' box. Don't try to produce your own hydrogen though, Raaaid - you'll probably end up demolishing your house!

[Treetop64]

raaaid, you have tons, tons of misguided potential. I mean that in a supportive way.

[K_Freddie]

I think AW has given you the clue, in a simple flash of brilliance..

This would apply for terrestial inverted pedulums.
With regard to gravity free pendulums.. now this would be interesting.

[DuxCorvan]

It's ok, just don't build my house.