frog wrote:
> can a small particle accelerator
> accelerate so much that the accelerating
> tube will act as an gyroscope and start
> levitating? can it be don
>
> at least in theory should be possible
>
> how much mass need to fly making the
> tube levitating?
First of all, gyroscopes don't levitate. They don't tip over, but
there's a good reason for that. They don't their center of mass off the
ground.
Secondly, the amount of mass that is going around in a particle
accelerator is incredibly small. The amount of mass that spun even in a
child's toy gyroscope generates trillions the amount of angular
momentum that is bound up in a particle accelerator.
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