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The Hypothesis
Not long ago I saw an empty cola bottle bouncing down an up escalator. As the bottle bounced down the steps it was also being pushed up by the movement of the mechanism. Although it didn't last too long I did notice that it took a lot longer to get to the bottom than on a conventional staircase. I wondered if it would be possible to get a bottle to fall down an escalator forever, but considered the random nature of its bouncing would make it highly improbable. But then I turned my mind to other things well known for their stair-decending capabilities - slinkys!
So was the slinky experiment born: I would make it my life times work to find the perfect slinky/escaltor combination that would allow a slinky to 'slink' forever, moving down the stairs at the exact rate that the escalator raised it.
Phase one of the experiment was completed last weekend: aquire slinky. Now I face the next stage - finding an escalator empty enough to test it on without looking like a nut.
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