We have all seen displays of apparent danger in high school chemistry or physics usually involving a bunsen burner or cinder block but Physicist Andreas Wahl decided to raise the stake with this dramatic demonstration, proving that things rotate faster when they approach a central point. “Therefore he is letting himself be dropped 14 metres towards the ground – only attached to a loose rope with a weight at the other end.”Â
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