Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!enterprise.bih.harvard.edu!rind From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) Newsgroups: sci.med Subject: Re: centrifuge Date: 16 Apr 1993 18:15:04 GMT Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA Lines: 18 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1qmt38$h27@hsdndev.harvard.edu> References: <1qid2s$3cq@access.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: enterprise.bih.harvard.edu In article rjf@lzsc.lincroftnj.ncr.com (51351[efw]-Robert Feddeler(MT4799)T343) writes: >: Could somebody explain to me what a centrifuge is and what it is >: used for? I vaguely remembre it being something that spins test tubes >: around really fast but I cant remember why youd want to do that? >Purely recreational. They get bored sitting in that >rack all the time. No, this is wrong. The purpose is to preserve the substances in the tubes longer by creating relativistic speeds and thus time dilatation. Of course, by slowing the subjective time of the test tubes they get less bored, which is probably what you were thinking of. -- David Rind rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu