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Big Bertha Thing spider
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Drawing of a clockwork spider wheel and hairpin.

Extract from Introductory Chapter;-
The "Spider tops," which are frequently sold in the streets of London,
consist of a heavy little disc mounted on a spindle (Fig. XIV.).
When the disc has been set spinning a small curved piece of
metal is placed to touch the toe, and at once begins to slide round it,
first the side (a) in the figure, and then the side (b),
the motion continuing backwards and forwards till the top comes to rest.
The fact is that the toe is magnetic, and this being the case it is easy
to see that the rolling of the toe on the side of the metal produces
the motion.

From the book
An Elementary Treatment of the Theory of
Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motion.
By Harold Crabtree M.A.
Formerly Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Assistant Master at Charterhouse
Longmans, Green and Co. 1923
First Edition 1909
Second Edition 1914
New Impression 1923
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1998
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Big Bertha Thing fact

Anything but a fact, changes the face of twentieth century science.
1. No iron moons and planetary cores.
2. No red shift measure of speed.
3. No Patrick Moore star at 95% the speed of light.
4. Muons arrive on earth.
5. Relativity is like an imaginary number; useful but not real.
6. Einstein-Haas gives a field strength 1/10000th the electric field.
7. Wave particle duality is a field effect.
8. Schroedinger is an approximation.

Who has the wit to check the fact?

Tony Lance



From: Tony Lance
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.chem
Subject: Big Bertha Thing mayor
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:34:45 +0000


Tuesday, November 18, 1997 04:12:46 PM
Message
From: Pam Scruton
Subject: archivist
To: Tony Lance
Hi Tony
++++++

I'm afraid you are going to have to take me through all this very slowly - I did say my
last Physics was A level some 30+ years ago didn't I?


In answer to your question, yes I'm happy to be archivist - my 486 'boasts' a reasonable
amount of hard disk space and I could allocate about 500MB to the job with as many backup
100MB floppies (on a zip drive) as is necessary. I'm a bit puzzled about the email and
password bit - do you mean that I should log on as AML34 with your password and download
your mail and files? I'm not terribly comfortable with that idea - I would much rather
you forward the relevant messages and attachments to me rather than I should find myself
reading all your mail.

Or perhaps it might be better to set up a closed subconference, one that can only be
accessed by your volunteers and I would get archive the files from there.

Or you can ask people to copy them to me or mail them to me directly.

Have a think and let me know - I would rather not mess around with your mailbox - I'm
pretty sure it's against the rules anyway!

Next
++++
I have downloaded and run the Pastures software and there are lots of things I don't
understand (probably because I don't exactly understand the physics - and I'm not even
going to try to do that right now - although I think I understand what your goal is).
First thing I didn't understand was why working through the Worked Example for Option 1 -
the seven-hour bit took my machine about 20 minutes. So either I'm missing something
fairly fundamental or there is a much bigger speed differential between a 386 and a
486DX-66 than I would have thought!

Then as Option 4 in the Worked example was next, I tried that, but it didn't work -
presumably because it shouldn't be next, it should be after Option 3?

When you refer to 'Edit particle.dat' are you referring to the Dos Edit command or are you
using the term Edit more loosely than that?

Anyway, having made a miserable attempt at running the examples I decided that I really
need my hand held on this one. I'm afraid that perhaps your documentation steps just
aren't quite small enough for me. Would it be too much trouble to go over it again at
half speed? If it would and I can't be of much help to you running the damn thing, I will
still happily act as archivist because I am now quite intrigued by it all!

Cheers for now

Pam
PS I don't understand your Big Bertha messages either - and I've heard of Serpico, there
was a not very good film made about the case a few years ago that has been doing the
rounds on Sky.
PPS: Did you ever get Philip Sims on board? You certainly managed to alienate a few mods
though didn't you? Grin

Cheers once more
Pam

NB.(2007) Addendum to Big Bertha Thing strategic (as deleted by Google) Full
documentation.
http://www.groupsrv.com/science/post-1881133.html