Yeah, as I recall, he claimed, quite ridiculously, that the (half snooker ball) losing grip slowed down due to friction - overlooking that obvious fact that when something loses grip and skids instead of rotating, it actually goes FASTER. It's all a long time ago now and I can't be bothered trying to get through to him any more but I appreciate all the efforts everyone is making to get it to listen to reason.
PPPS - I also think he's wrong about Jaffa cakes being biscuits, making them VATable. When they were taken to court over it byCustoms & Excise, they won by proving it IS a cake, just a very small one, by baking a series of them in different sizes, until it was inarguable that the largest was in fact a cake.
PPPPS - Do you get free Jaffa cakes from Sainsbury's? Have you considered launching them using a French loaf as a lever? You can use a stale sausage as a pivot.
Hey Ian, can you repeat this, but try to align the camera with the highest line when you launch the 1mass on the outer end of the lever? We are viewing it from below and it seems like it reached a height of almost 3.5 distances instead of 3. Gary is claiming victory now, the same as Stephen's experiment.
PPS How is he going on with his free energy machine Patent application? Oh yeah - I forgot - He doesn't know what a Patent is - He thought sending it in an envelope to himself constituted a patent (LMFAO) Maybe he can cite a SINGLE instance of that holding up in a court of law, even when supposedly used as evidence of copyright. A patent is a completely different thing, altogether ... "A patent is a completely different thing!!!" (AIRPLANE REFERENCE LOL) "The red zone is for people who make up their own facts" "Listen Betty, don;t start with your red zone sh .. again" Who said Americans don;t have a sense of humour - they gave us Goofy for a start.
You're so witty Steve! The funny thing is he is always bringing your experiment up as a supportive example to his theory,complimenting you on how well you did it😮then decrying experiments that use carts with many wheels because of all the lost energy in the wheels momentum😂
@@Ian.Gostling I think those wheels weighed about 7 grams - on carts carrying about 0.5- 2 Kilograms - so as you of course already realise, the angular momentum of the cart wheels is so neglibible, it's probably less than the measurement error. Even if we went to the trouble of calculating it, it would be wasted effort because - well we all know why.
