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Fixed and thanks.

^I was just going to say that!

Here is that chair on the sift http://www.videosift.com/video/Arthur-Ganson-Cory-s-Yellow-Chair

Reminds me of Athur Ganson:



TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_ganson_makes_moving_sculpture.html

Oh, now I remember!

This machine was created by artist/engineer Arthur Ganson. It consists of a 200 rpm motor turning a series of 12 gears, each with a 50:1 reduction. The implications of this are that the final gear will make a complete revolution in approximately 2 TRILLION years. Another implication is that a force of 1 lb/ft of torque input will result in a monumentally staggering 244 QUINTILLION lb/ft of force or 244 billion billion! The final drive is formed into a solid concrete block- which will surely shater from the staggering forces generated in a few hundred billion years, if the universe hasn't ceased to exist by that point.

Keep in mind that the age of the universe itself is estimated at 13.5- 14 Billion years, and the mass of the known universe is estimated at 38*10^49 metric tons. In other words, you would have to wait several dozen lifetimes of the universe for one complete revolution, and while you wouldn't be able to move the whole universe with this machine, a few galaxies wouldn't be out of the question!

Edit: Another thought I've had regarding this remarkable machine is the amount of horsepower being generated- effectively zero as there is no work being done in time-periods would normally be used for calculations. Give me a lever long enough...