--- "Stephen A. Lawrence" wrote: > How on Earth would you 'alter' the mass ratio "via > computer control"?
Stephen, thought you'd never ask ;-) One way might be to construct the opposing weights essentially as "containers" which are filled with a conductive liquid such as mercury or NaK. The two are connected to each other with a hollow capillary tube (suspended so as not to interfere) so that a few milligrams of mass, over and above the magic ratio of three, can be shuttled back and forth on command in milliseconds using solid state (MHD) pumping, controlled by a CPU. > This sounds like Tony Stark's "transistor powered" > armor! Ha, this guy? http://www.ironmanarmory.com/starkinventions.html ...hey thanks for the compliment. Aukshully, maybe there is something in there which can be turned into a 'complement'. Most of my ideas are inspired by Rube Goldberg anyway. > In any case the physical mechanism for varying the ratio of the two masses while the system's operating seems kind of obscure. ... yeah. Otherwise someone would already be doing it, no? BTW how does one convey in trendy email writing-style - the currently "hip" way that our youth pronounce "yeah" in such a three-syllable way as to mean the equivalent of "well, duh"? Jones (aka Professor Butts and/or Tony Stark)
