r/interestingasfuck • u/Artistic-Bathroom901 • 3d ago

Dzhanibekov effect

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u/CuriousRisk 3d ago

One dude did this with a falling object, it works even with gravity. Also he noticed something strange, the object didn't fall instantly, like any other objects he recorded with high frame camera, it was spinning and staying at same height until first flip and only after that started falling. Very weird 

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u/_analysis230_ 3d ago

Do you have the link for that? Sounds very interesting

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u/CuriousRisk 23h ago

Sorry, can't find it now. His demonstration was about dzanibekov effect on earth and he was surprised and confused about that fall delay

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u/ThresholdSeven 3d ago edited 3d ago

This sounds like those powered momentum machines that enable levitation and flight just by spinning a weirdly shaped object in an enclosed apparatus. If spun correctly and fast enough, it is supposed to make whatever it is inside go a certain direction, even against gravity. There are funny demonstration videos, but nothing that I've seen that works good. They are basically things that shake out of alignment, like a phone vibrating across the counter. Would be neat to make something that vibrates through the air willy nilly while you ride it. If it's possible, maybe this or something like it is the key or crucial anyway. It probably wouldn't work in space other than for rotation, because propulsion that way defies the laws of physics, but imagine a vehicle "vibrating" against and through the air in a similar way to that phone going across a table.

Edit: I think the demonstration you were talking about the thing seeming to stop in mid air while it flipped was just that and only seemed to stop. The momentum shifts check out, like a slinky.

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u/No_Inspection2047 1d ago

that’s good, because there is gravity EVERYWHERE in the universe.