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Thinking a lot about ratchets lately. Internal and external. Ratchets are more fundamental than clocks. Things that can only grow in one direction, and reversed only via destruction.
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Umm. Not quite. Flywheels are not feedback mechanisms, and neither are ratchets. Flywheels are inertial loads. Integrators that can be wound/unwound if you like systems theory. Ratchets are feedback-driven state constraints. Amazon basically thinks with this lingo.
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