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As the 9 included magnets both attract and repulse the swinging pendulum, the action is both jerky and fluid. The invisible fields act as an ethereal cushion as the pendulum never touches the magnets, but floats above them. Like a perpetual motion machine with no purpose, you can escape your duldrums as you stare at the swinging pendulum going on and on for minutes on end, getting bounced from one magnet to another. Comes with a book of games for the terminally bored. Make sure you keep this away from Television sets, CRT monitors, magnetic media and your CPU!
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We teach science as a linear action-reaction set of events, with the implicit idea that if we can know all of the details, we can predict any consequences. As 20th century physics demonstrated, it is theoretically impossible to know all of the details.
We typically look at a system from the outside, where everything is averaged out, or else simplify a system so that it can be managed (take a perfectly round cow goes the old physics joke), but if we need to look at the system itself, we are in a different realm. And, if we want to understand weather, global warming, nanotechnology, or genetic engineering, we are in the system itself.
The seemingly randomness of this simple toy is the basis for understanding how the world really works -and its chaotic behavior should be the basis for how we teach science.
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Mess around with magnetic fields with the ROMP basically a magnet on a string swinging over other magnets. A simple concept, but you can do a lot with it. Unfortunately, perpetual motion is impossible, but you can really get this thing to move and keep moving for a long time. Plus you can set it up to have the magnet sticking off at a weird angle so people's first impression is "What IS that thing?". If you like messing with magnets and want a cool thing to put on your shelf, get one of these.
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The R.O.M.P. has been a disappointing purchase. I don't recommend it. My 12 yr old daughter had a Newton's Cradle Newtons Cradle Large that she loved. It was endlessly fascinating to her to drop the ball and watch it seem to ricochet off both sides. When the cradle finally broke, I thought I would find something different, yet similar. That is why I bought the R.O.M.P. The R.O.M.P does what it was advertised to do, but unfortunately it turns out that this is only (mildly) interesting the first time you see it. This isn't the sort of toy/device/equipment that you will find yourself playing with days later and then again days after that. Note that the pendulum is a pendulum-like; as on a grandfather clock, it is straight and stiff, not flexible like a string or a chain. I don't know why but I think that it is something about the pendulum's straight stiffness (as opposed to the flexibility of a string) that makes this toy less arresting than it might be.
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This simple and durable device is captivating in operation and lures children and adults alike to play with the magnets to get different patterns. It teaches the basics of magnetism and pendulums in one fun toy that had my 6 year old niece and several adults engaged in place of other more flashy and expensive toys. For the price, this is a real winner.
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