Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Video: Zero Gravity - Balls Rolling Uphill
To construct the deceptive contraption, Kokichi Sugihara contravened a deeply held intuition: gravity works.
Sugihara, a mathematical engineer at Meiji University in Japan, built a set of four ramps, arranged in a cross, on which wooden balls appear to roll uphill, as if pulled by a magnet toward the centre.
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