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QUOTE: "a hollow ring, like a small hoola hoop..."
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Ok, I'm no engineer - so someone needs to chime in and help me.

If you take a perfectly round, smooth, hollow ring (that is slightly unbalanced) - and you place perfectly round, smooth beads inside it and spin it at a high RPM - are you suggesting that the beads will somehow congregate at the unbalanced spot and magically collect there? Rather than just distributing themselves evenly around the fast spinning ring?

I would like to know what physical science term that action would be called.
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