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How to Find the Sweet Spot

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4/5. The Balancing Trick. Tricks such as spinning a ball on the tip of yourfmger are difficult to get nght. Physicists Len Rsher and Jeff Odell talk to circus Performer Rod Laver about the best way to find a balancing "sweet spot". Then they reveal, with the help of mathematician Tom Mullin , how science lets us
Perform a modern version of the apparently impossible Indian rope-trick. Fordetails see Monday

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Len Rsher
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Jeff Odell
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Rod Laver
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Tom Mullin
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