I believe you're thinking specifically of closed orbits (if my hazy recollection of Newtonian dynamics is correct). Any attractive potential can lead to orbits, but most types of potentials produce orbits that do not necessarily close on themselves. Orbits in the gravitational potential around spheres and points lead to elliptical orbits that close on themselves (instead of precessing around like a spirograph sketch).
Microsurgery? Lab-on-a-chip processing? Little assembly lines where the robot hand gently grabs an ovum, fertilizes it with the help of another little hand, and moves it to the nursery where we grow clones to take over the world?
Just a thought.
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I believe you're thinking specifically of closed orbits (if my hazy recollection of Newtonian dynamics is correct). Any attractive potential can lead to orbits, but most types of potentials produce orbits that do not necessarily close on themselves. Orbits in the gravitational potential around spheres and points lead to elliptical orbits that close on themselves (instead of precessing around like a spirograph sketch).
. . . and the projected cost quadrupled from $3 billion to over $12 billion, making the whole thing look like an egregious bait and switch scam.
Your French colleagues at the Laboratoire d’nologie et Chimie Applique seem to disagree with you, http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/jf101239w
It does, literally, spin. Look at the video.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer
They meant a Crookes Radiometer.
Apparently, you haven't sailed before, because you can't sail directly into a headwind.
This is it http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.160502
Here's the correct link http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.160502
Here's the correct link http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.160502
That's 'cause i posted the wrong link. This is the right one http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.160502
My bad, the link to the correct paper is this http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.160502 Sorry kids. Buzz
Actually, about the traffic thing . . . http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/152243/Rude-Drivers-Reduce-Traffic-Jams
Ummm, saw what? the typo, the erroneous link, or the kickass rap itself?
oops, wrong link . . . check THIS out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
check it out http://www.google.com/search?q=%22largw+hadron+rap%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Microsurgery? Lab-on-a-chip processing? Little assembly lines where the robot hand gently grabs an ovum, fertilizes it with the help of another little hand, and moves it to the nursery where we grow clones to take over the world? Just a thought.
Here's a little song that tells you everything you need to know about the Creation, you (D)evilutionists you. http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/bands/buzz_skyline.s html
-Buzz Skyline