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An egg timer is placed (off-center) on a centrifuge. By varying
the speed of the motor, you can control the duration of the
timer. To enhance visibility, the timer medium (which could
be either solid or liquid) is made out of a fluorescent
material, and the centrifuge has an integrated black
light.
Watch it go around in circles as the grains of time slip away.
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Slowing down time will not make your eggs any
softer. |
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Yes you would shurely have to factor in relativistic effects into your calculations I would think! |
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Yes, wouldn't it be simpler to have it orbit a black hole? |
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If your eggs were overcooked, you could take advantage of
frame dragging to soften them. |
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You would have to control for relativistic effects by
frying the egg in the centrifuge as well so that it was
subject to the same forces as the egg-timer. |
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// so that it was subject to the same forces as the egg-timer. // |
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But if the observer is outside the system under scrutiny, the observed data are themselves subject to relativistic effects. |
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So there needs to be somewhere in the centrifuge for the observer, too. |
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If you're having the system orbit a black hole, watch out for tidal forces; the gravity gradient's going to be fairly steep. |
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//the gravity gradient's going to be fairly steep//
How steep?
Could we save on cooking
gas by using tidal forces to scramble eggs? |
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Tidal forces might be able to mix the yolk and white, possibly without breaking the shell, but wouldn't provide enough energy to cook the egg. |
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Perfect, that's what I wanted. Combine tidal forces with
frame dragging, and it should be possible to unscramble an
egg without breaking the shell. |
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[bisleep] That depends on whether space is flat or curved.
Small changes to the cosmological constant can change an
oblique metaphor into an acute observation. |
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... or an obtuse comment. |
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Are there a lot of people like that, then? |
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