The Buttered Cat Thought Experiment

Thought experiments

Some people jokingly maintain that the experiment will produce an anti-gravity effect. They propose that as the cat falls towards the ground, it will slow down and start to rotate, eventually reaching a steady state of hovering a short distance from the ground while rotating at high speed as both the buttered side of the toast and the cat’s feet attempt to land on the ground.^[3] In June 2003, Kimberly Miner won a Student Academy Award for her film Perpetual Motion.^[4] Miner based her film on a paper written by a high-school friend that explored the potential implications of the cat and buttered toast idea.^[5][6]