{"id":2387,"date":"2021-01-10T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2021-01-10T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T00:04:02","slug":"our-world-is-strange-enough-for-these-tops-and-dice-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/2387","title":{"rendered":"Our world is strange enough for these tops and dice to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/25192304919dc0efb17496b865fa6954-e1610322620611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/25192304919dc0efb17496b865fa6954-e1610322620611.jpg 286w, https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/25192304919dc0efb17496b865fa6954-e1610322620611-163x300.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Classical mechanics&#8221; is the name of the simplest physics. It is the physics of pool tables, physics before electricity, magnetism, relativity, and quantum effects. Nevertheless, we&#8217;re still learning new things about it. And those discoveries lead to some pretty deep toys.<\/p>\n<p>Four tops<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LmEf7aIhpF8\">Reverse-rotating top<\/a> (magically turns around to spin the other way)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1VPfZ_XzisU?t=319\">Axis-reversing top<\/a> (magically twists around itself spinning the same way)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ItuAtgvkIkM\">Self-inverting top<\/a> (magically flips upside down)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qquek0c5bt4\">Negative-space top<\/a> (magically turn any shape into a top)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two dice<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/1054\">Six-sided spherical die<\/a> (magically not infinite-sided)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rvVF5QWSYF4\">One-sided die<\/a> (actually a pretty big deal; great if you don&#8217;t like games of chance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Digging up videos of these led me to other great things, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kx3QtNmhN-o\">oloids<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eESLIrxw2x0\">sphericons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fOojOfpcPZM\">solids of constant width<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vedP40v0eDY\">tops in space<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Classical mechanics&#8221; is the name of the simplest physics. It is the physics of pool tables, physics before electricity, magnetism, relativity, and quantum effects. Nevertheless, we&#8217;re still learning new things about it. And those discoveries lead to some pretty deep toys. Four tops Reverse-rotating top (magically turns around to spin the other way) Axis-reversing top &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/2387\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our world is strange enough for these tops and dice to be<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}