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Small Change, and Other Physics Fun

Posted by michael on from the physics-is-phun dept.

fishy jew writes "Ever want an easy way to make your 'small change' even smaller? Well, Bert Hickman has it - mix a home-brewed machine, 6.5 kiloJoules, and 100,000 Amps of current! On his website, he has descriptions and pictures of his many exploits with large quantities of electricity, notably including shrinking coins, building a Tesla coil, creating Lichtenberg figures (chaotic sculpture), and more! He has extensively outlined the equipment, procedure, and results for each of his experiments, and included many pretty pictures, too. Here are Google caches for when the site gets /.'ed: Main Page, Shrinking Coins, Tesla Coil, and Lichtenberg Figures."

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  1. Google Cache? by ResQuad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Doesnt do anything, because it doesnt cache the pictures. And thats the largest problems of slashdoting. I think slashdot should try to temp mirror the pages for the first few hours it goes up, if its a small site.

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    1. Re:Google Cache? by La+Camiseta · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This is exactly the reason that I think that Slashdot should put up some Freenet mirrors. At least then, when there's a big rush of requests, the little site's servers wouldn't get the big hits, and the bandwidth would distribute itself out like BitTorrent.

  2. Hmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder how much I'd have to pay for an ad cleverly disguised as a slashdot main story.

  3. Not a record, but... by pla · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No posts yet, but already slashdotted.

    Actually, though, I have seen his page before. really cool toys, but strikes me as something most of us would probably not want to play with.

    Worry about the health risks of frequent cell phone use? Doesn't even come close to the RF this sucker puts off. Not to mention ozone and the very real risk of simple death from electrocution...