Re:Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video]
by Akronymus on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:47AM
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It will move but in such a small range, that the wobble of the atoms is MUCH larger over a "short" amount of time, than the effective movement of the axle. So, at some point, the wobble would just shift slightly.
And tolerances exagerrate that by a LOT.
At first it seems pretty simple--but at that overall reduction a small motion at the motor end translates to a motion at the far end that is ridiculously smaller than the Planck length. The motor end is a simple classical physics system, but that thing is a quantum system on the far end.
I have no idea how to figure out what would actually happen if you let that run for long enough that the far end should have moved significantly according to classical physics.