Machine with Concrete
Movement is reduced to stillness, given an astronomical gear ratio.
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Legendary kinetic and mechanical sculptor Arthur Ganson has lent us one of his simplest and most potent works. A motor is connected to a block of concrete via a simple system of gears. The final gear, embedded in concrete, is set up to make one revolution once every 13.7 billion years, yet the machine whirs uninterrupted.
