A 'Tippy Top' is a spherical object like an oval/ellipse with its center of mass out of the middle when spun. The reason it tip's over has got to do with Momentum of inertia, Torque and Force of friction.
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- Michel
- This blog is to present a Sci-fi Aether concept of how ellipsoidal particles that make up a gaseous medium, can align themselves and form figure 8-shaped loopings or toruses; and thus becoming in essence elementary particles within the Aether. Some of stuff on this blog is perhaps too far out, and completely wrong, but there are some more valid ideas to reflect upon. Anyway, I'm trying to get a good simulation going, so it all becomes more clear. Here is a clip of the basic idea of an 8-knot propelling through space: movie (40Mb)
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