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# 7657 NewtonTown

"Where nerds rule!" A theme park based on Newtonian physics. Why hasn't this been done before?! Imagine a theme park with roller coasters like the mobius (the ride with one side). Bumper cars on a track with different surfaces with different frictional properties. Launch rocket where you can see the hydraulics at work. A giant rocking-boat-style ride run on a Foucault pendulum . Games where you try and shoot a target that is dropped when you pull the trigger. Or games where you get 5 minutes to answer some heinous physics question. Every ride has 1 or more learning spots where you can learn about what's making the thing fun. And of course you can break a few records with the largest air cannon, or the furthest speak to each other via concave disk thingy. You are greeted upon entering the park by an enormous and elaborate Rube Goldberg-inspired perpetual motion fountain . Really the possibilities are endless. Here's why it would work: You have two types of ...

# 6543 The Mobius

How have I not written about this? Okay, it's a roller coaster where you ride on the "top" of the track and then with a half twist you ride on the "bottom" of the same track. The track has a tongue and groove mechanism to make it possible to ride hanging or on top.