Thursday, October 27, 2011

Pendulums In Motion

This is really neat to watch.

Harvard built a device with a series of fifteen pendulums in a row, each one of them slightly longer than its neighbor.

The pendulums were set into motion and the result was captured on video.

The patterns that appear in this short video are fascinating to watch and to think about.

Prepare to be captivated by this simple device!

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6 comments:

jedwis said...

Wow SER... pass the shrooms and the bag of fritos. Very cool.

hale-bopp said...

These are not difficult to build...and fun to watch. You can find lots of websites with directions on how to build your own (and I have).

SER said...

Bopster you crack me up and I think you be have'en a bag of jedwis's shrooms with you!

It is cool as hell to watch a lot more interesting then the steel balls swinging and knocking each other. I forgot what they call them.

OrbsCorbs said...

Hippy trippy. Fire up a doobie and watch that for an hour.

Why Not? said...

I'll have to watch it again, with Halloween around the corner everyone keeps sending those videos of something popping up and scaring me so I didnt dare look at it too closely, from what I saw it was pretty cool..

OrbsCorbs said...

Why Not, I HATE those videos where something pops out to scare you. The first hint is that they usually say to "watch closely."