:24:01
the amount that I was wiping off
every five days...
:24:03
and five days later it would accumulate...
:24:06
he says it would take about five to six years.
:24:11
I don't want to belittle this guy.
:24:13
So, I said screw it
and I put my watch in there.
:24:16
-And?
-I want you to do it.
:24:19
-Where is it? The box?
-I took it back to the shop.
:24:24
-Wait, digital or old mechanical?
-Exactly. I did both.
:24:29
-And what?
-I want you to do it.
:24:34
We thought
that we were degrading gravity, right?
:24:36
That we were blocking that information.
:24:38
I think we're doing more than that.
I think we're blocking more than that.
:24:42
When you were controlling the feed,
did you notice it was parabolic?
:24:46
It's important. Parabolas are important.
Here, look at this.
:24:51
I don't know, Abe.
:24:52
I'm going to start it up
and let it run for 60 seconds...
:24:55
with nothing in it. It's empty this time.
:24:57
That's 22--
:24:58
In all the equations that describe motion
and heat and entropy.
:25:01
In all Feynman diagrams what's the
one variable that you can turn negative...
:25:05
and still get rational answers for?
It's not mass.
:25:08
Twenty-two hours, 27 minutes in the box.
:25:10
-It's an odd number.
-That's 1,347 minutes.
:25:15
-1,347, man, you got that fast.
-How did you know it's odd?
:25:19
Because this is it. This is what's going on.
There's an "A" end and a "B" end.
:25:23
Let's say the A end is 12:00,and the B end is 12:01.
:25:26
All right? We start the machine
with the Weeble at the A end.
:25:29
-It travels forward--
-You got to write this down.
:25:32
-There's nothing to write down.
-I'll write it down.
:25:34
It travels forward normally
towards the B end.
:25:37
When it gets there,
the feed runs down parabolically...
:25:39
until it should stop, but it curves
back around towards the A end.
:25:42
When it gets back to the A end....
Curve that around. The Weeble...
:25:46
has experienced a total of two minutes,
and again it curves--
:25:49
-Back around. It curves parabolically.
-Right.
:25:51
It comes back around
and it does this about 1,300 times.
:25:54
When it finally exits on the B end...
:25:56
it's traveled an odd number
of forward and backward trips.
:25:59
What is so special about 1,300?
Why is it about 1,300? Why isn't it exact?