Hurricane Balls
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2010
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The 'Hurricane Balls' consist of two ball bearings welded together by passing 800 Amps through them. If you spin the Hurricane Balls on a smooth surface, you can use the plastic pipe to blow at one side of the Hurricane Balls. Not only does this keeps them spinning, you can accelerate them up to incredible speeds. Speeds of 12,000 rpm have been recorded for the Hurricane Balls using a laboratory strobe light.
At home, it is possible to use a tv as a simple stroboscope. Dr Adam Chalcraft writes "I can easily get a speed of 3600 RPM, and more to the point I can easily measure this, by putting the top in front of my (NTSC) TV in a dark room. As it runs down, I can clearly see 60Hz, 30Hz, 20Hz and so on. Of course if you try it in front of a PAL TV (in the UK) you will see 50Hz, 25Hz and so on." Thanks for that, Adam.
Any smooth surface will work for spinning on, but the very best is a concave mirror, e.g. those round, magnifying bathroom mirrors.
Once the Hurricane Balls are spinning, you can then use the coloured LED torches to illuminate them, with different colours at different angles. In a darkened room, the effect is magical!
MARCH 2016 UPDATE. Sadly, the man in Germany who used to make these for us has passed away. However there is now a version of the Hurricane Balls called Tornado Spheres. These are made in China, and are cheaper as well! See www.grand-illusions.com/acatal... - Наука та технологія
Somebody call in the slo-mo-guys.
I was thinking the same thing
Euler's disk is jealous!
'Hurricane Balls' was what they called me in high school.
this guy is automatically invited to all my house parties, barbecues and dinners.
Gosh indeed.
Gosh
gosh.
The strobing effect caused by the video camera makes it even cooler for us watching ;)
our new source of energy.
the start of real beyblades :)
waterlegend72 gosh
Meanwhile I can only spin 477 RPM on a good day.
gosh
Delightful. Thank you.
I have gained great respect for you, sir.
These look like so much fun! :D
He used his coke setup for this one
Looks amazing
If I ever find myself near London I'll absolutely need to stop by your store.
You're a wizard Harry.
I wonder if this concept has or could be turned into a motor.
I wish this guy was my grandpa. He has more toys than I ever did...
This is awesome, this guy is awesome, this accent is awesome.
Fantastic!
If only to put them in a vacuum and spin them up with magnets how long could they spin hmm??
Came here for the hilarious title...
Hurricane Balls....
rofl
That is so friggin' cool...
With the red and blue lights, the balls remind me of my Powerball - it's a gyroscopic exercizer/toy powered by motion of the wrist.
Is it because of the light reflection what makes the hurricane? I am just curious.
This is great
I totaly want this one
these realy are the best kind of toys arent they
crazy cool!
Hurricane Balls + Pot = BEST TRIP EVER!
awesome!
so cool
Nice balls
this is cool
Gracias!!🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒
Love it
COOL!
Wish I had those awesome ones xD
wow, love it! where can i buy some. can't find any online.
There's a different toy, a couple of magnetic spheres to annoy people with the noise when they hit each other. I've successfully used them to do the same trick. Those balls are much more massive, so they've been spinning much longer than I've ever could wait for. Also, it's nice to do this trick near CRT monitor, because with every time those magnet balls spin a circle, the image on the screen moves and the image goes through all colors of rainbow. NB. Don't ever do that if you care that your old CRT screen survives. Don't spin magnet balls too much, because they'll fly apart and almost certainly smash something in the room. For example, your eye.
1:50 so trippy
Man, even if you're wrong you still sound smarter than me.
So are they welded together or are they magnets?
If you get the reflected image to spin in the opposite direction would you get anti-gravity? I'm just asking.
Where might I be able to find these? I would love these for a physics demonstration.
On what physic principles is this experiment based?
What if they were magnetic and had some copper wire around them?
Sadly Eddie currents would bring them to a halt much quicker than they would naturally.
+Davi Aquino it would slow them down so it wouldt be effective at all...
now i saw everything, time to die happy!
where do you guys get the ball??
Where can I buy a pair of these? I looked on trade me and Amazon but I still can't find them.
Top of the future!
very cooool
Hi have u tried them with laser pen yet?
What happens if you touch them while it's spinning? Do you get shredded into itty bitty pieces?
@koniginator having more fun than we are just watching it to be sure.
So now I know what I will use as my totem.
Why does a mirror surface make an ideal surfaces for objects like eulers disc to have a pitch that approaches infinity
I want this as a meditation apparatus
I WANT THIS, idc if it's super simple xD
Nice! I did something like that with two magnet balls =)
Just didn't blow or used laser on it
guys i need help
Can you please explain to me, why they accelerate when you blow air on them (physically)
Thanks in advance
Anyone know where i can get one online because it seems the link to the website doesn't work and it's probably sold out by now on there website
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Where can I get these? I have a friend who would absolutely love them.
Simple amazing
FUCKING MESMERIZING!!!!
imagine a huge one of these powering something :D
i want one of these
Y cant u be my grandpa :(
Jesus I want those.
Liquid metal spinning in a hollow doughnut at an extremely high rate of speed is said to be the key to antigravity propulsion.
I wonder if this will work with glass marbles and e6000.
this would've surely prolonged the ending of Inception by like 10 hours
Towards the end they remind me of what an Atom would look like IF we could see them.
So. Cool. Itd be crazy to show someone under an influence with that mirror. And a laser pointer!
That.is.so.awesome. xD
how does it make natural light?
I laughed my ass off when he said 'gosh' at the end. XD
This should go onto the atomic trampoline !! nothing will stop it then
The bearing's inertia is a fixed value, the momentum is what is changed.
how big can these things be?
try them with compressed air and the blower fitting. I used to spin wheel bearings when I cleaned them until they sounded like a jet engine, until one day when one exploded.
Ironically...The video labeled "Hurricane Balls" is the most viewed video on this channel..
I really want to see these spin with a really high speed camera.
now we need to get them to flash's speed see if they go back or forward in time.
i did this with some neodymium magnets and accelerated them till the configuration literally exploded. that shocked me a lot!!! luckily i wear glasses...
i want these :P
were can I get big ball bearings
Careful my lad, spin them any faster and you'll create a wormhole
GOSH!
my brain melted
Will it hurt if you touch them at 1000rev?
i wonder if i can make these.......and i wonder if they are avalible in 2014
In America i found some that are easy to make just use super glue and put them together! They are quit fun.
+2000 likes. awesome
How did we ever come up with this?
Gosh indeed