Pace Eugene, it doesn't seem to me that this question has yet received a satisfactory answer. Why do objects fall at all, under the influence either of gravity or a centrifuge? Mechanics isn't my strong point --- but I think the implicit subtext is that [ignoring inertia for the moment] the system attempts to minimise its potential energy, which involves high density regions migrating in the direction of the force field. WFL On 4/30/08, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
It separates things by density, not mass.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Mike Speciner wrote:
<< [quote of passage from NY Times article that Mike evidently considers erroneous]
Mike, I don't recall if I ever understood just how centrifuges work. Would you be so kind as to explain?
--Dan
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