Spinning At the Speed of Light
by Jenny Revitz Soper
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Title
Spinning At the Speed of Light
Artist
Jenny Revitz Soper
Medium
Photograph - Photograph- Digitally Treated
Description
If you could spin a carousel fast enough to get its rim moving at nearly the speed of light, would time stand still for people on the carousel?
In the theoretical sense, this idea is reasonable. If the carousel were spinning so that the outer edge of the carousel moved at nearly the speed of light, then time would appear to slow down for people on the carousel. When the carousel riders looked out at the world spinning by, the days would pass very quickly. So the people on the carousel would age very slowly relative to people not on the carousel. This would essentially create a time machine that lets the passengers on the carousel travel into the future without growing older.
This idea has problems, though, because of the centrifugal forces that the carousel would generate. Some of the fastest-rotating objects in existence today are high-speed flywheels. These float on magnetic bearings in a vacuum chamber so there is nearly zero friction. They achieve speeds up to about 200,000 rotations per minute (rpm). The main problem with flywheels running this quickly is rotor disintegration based on the material used. So, even if you assume that a flywheel with a 3-foot (1-meter) circumference and about a 12-inch (32-cm) diameter was running at 1 million rpm, the outer edge of the flywheel would be traveling at only about 34,000 miles per hour (55,000 kph) -- nowhere even close to the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second.
Well, back to the drawing board!
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