[time-nuts] I think I've become a Volt nut too.

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Tue Jan 12 20:06:14 UTC 2010


Hmmm...  gravity locking. I wonder if you could actually power a torsion
pendulum that way?

-John

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> I'm picturing 100,000 pendula in a cave, all gravity locked to
> their neighbors. (How small would they have to be to fit into
> the main cave at Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico?)
>
> So, how much would the temperature gradient have to be to break
> the lock?
>
> Ah, maybe it isn't gravity, but the common floor support.
>
> What a great day for thought experiments.
>
> Bill Hawkins





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