TWEAZLES
DESCRIPTION
Galaxies spin, solar systems spin, planets spin…and the electrons making up everything around us are spinning. From the largest to the smallest, Spin is how Universe works.
By studying these educational artifacts, you too will become wiser in the ways of the workings of the Universe. Just as Newton grasped that our moon and an apple were falling to the attraction of the same force, Gravity; we know that all things from galaxies to quarks have a basic motion, Spin. Is there a connection?
Tops are a sub-class of gyroscopes, and tweazles are a sub-class of spinning tops. Tweazles are soothing and fascinating. Tweazles spin a long time.
A tweazle is a symbol of Unity, made of two seeming opposites, supportive of each other, exhibiting both polarity and a spreading field. Sort of like electro-magnetism…a model for photons? Our galaxy, with the plasma poles? Or perhaps an introduction to spintronics?
DETAILS:
- Insert the ‘tweazle-stick’ (with rounded ends, it is as long as the ‘twheal’ is wide) through the hole in the center of the twheal; slide the twheal up or down, and you’ve made a tweazle.
- Each tweazle is hand-made and unique.
- Each tweazle spin is unique.
- Tweazles cause one to reflect on the stillness at the center of spin.