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I'm also curious about where exactly in that built cog system is the point where the "turning of the cog" doesn't make any sense. It's way before the last one, but there can be found some point where we can still somehow in some realistic timeframe confirm the turn. Then it becomes fuzzy (at...

You're absolutely right — from a practical engineering standpoint. If we tried to physically build this kind of ultra-slow gear chain using real materials, we’d hit hard limits almost immediately: atomic vibrations, mechanical slop, thermal noise, and manufacturing tolerances would completely...

Thank you for this, exactly the kind of contraption I was thinking of, and "classical" as the gears are huge and visible for the plain eye. Isn't it weird to think that the last gear is actually turning right now, but how? :) Underneath the Planck length.

The gears I saw were structured with two layers so that all the gears are of the same size and the transfer of ratio works through the smaller layer. Hence material / sizewise there is no issue. This is why I'm calling it a classical system, because you can see all the connected gears with plain...

Thank you for your answer! The main reason about this specific setup that made me curious was that for every second the gears turn, we can calculate the exact theoretical turn the last gear should have turned, no matter how small. So it is very concrete "thing" and not just philosophical. And as...

I had this thought experiment when I ran into a cog system that had a simple idea behind it: Each cog in the system completes one turn only after the previous one has completed ten turns. If you chain let's say 40 such cogs, the last one is already rotating so slow that not even the time until...