{"id":2494,"date":"2010-06-16T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T18:28:42","slug":"hurrah-for-duct-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/hurrah-for-duct-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurrah for Duct Tape!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12490554&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Richard Feynman argued that, in reality, the bouncing beads would not be capable of doing meaningful work. Feynman showed that, since the entire system operates at the same temperature, a pawl would occasionally slip off the wheel. As a result, the system would generate zero net movement.<\/p>\n<p>Now, physicist Devaraj van der Meer from the University of Twente and his colleagues have demonstrated that such a machine can in fact spin the paddles forward only, generating a positive net movement &#8230; The key challenge was getting the vanes to move in the forward direction only, which the scientists achieved with &#8211; somewhat surprisingly &#8211; duct tape&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there <b>anything<\/b> duct tape can&#8217;t do? Besides break the second law of thermodynamics, I mean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/12490554\" target=\"_blank\">Newly created machine on Vimeo<\/a>. Write-up at PhysOrg.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news195819314.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Experiment finally proves 100-year-old thought experiment is possible <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Richard Feynman argued that, in reality, the bouncing beads would not be capable of doing meaningful work. Feynman showed that, since the entire system operates at the same temperature, a pawl would occasionally slip off the wheel. As a result, the system would generate zero net movement. Now, physicist Devaraj van der Meer from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[124,383,1318],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neat-stuff","category-video","tag-beads","tag-duct-tape","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-Ee","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}