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 (DIR) Post #AlbAAElJD0CxcYZp8y by tb@tldr.nettime.org
       2024-08-29T16:39:55Z
       
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       Image lifted from FB, where it came with the caption: {{{ This bicycle, called the "RELATIVITY Special", if pedaled at 90 rpm, is designed to travel faster than the speed of light. This is proven by a description of the gear ratios on the sheets seen on the wall behind it. One revolution of the pedals sends the bike 6 times around the earth. (It is part of the art exhibition "Circle of Time" that Pat Chirapravati curated now on display at California State University, Sacramento). }}}I have no idea if that’s true, but I have some idea that it exemplifies the kind of theoretical-rhetorical style that’s destroying the world — like ”the Second Law of Thermodynamics dictates that the universe will inexorably tend toward heat death, so here’s my deck on how we can get first-mover advantage by burning everything down.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AlbAAFffpRIKRMwq00 by rst@mastodon.social
       2024-08-29T16:48:42Z
       
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       @tb Well, it'll asymptotically approach the speed of light.  If twirling the gears makes it go faster... we've got some remarkable new physics.Not necessarily the most extreme gear ratio in displayed artwork; there's also this piece (now apparently on loan to the Exploratorium in San Francisco): https://arthur.io/art/arthur-ganson/machine-with-concrete
       
 (DIR) Post #AlbAAGHbYPdUL0h87c by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2024-09-02T16:29:38Z
       
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       @rst @tb I saw that machine! Somewhere, prob exploratorium. It's humorous. Is not the bicycle made in a similar mode? One would assume the author capable of welding that much would have tried it!