[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 70, Issue 31

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu May 13 11:35:34 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:22:03AM -0400, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
> 
> If gravity effects are the coupling mechanism, then even pendulums are "speed of light" coupled. 

February 1665 Huygens discovered the effect with pendulums locked
in 50 kg wooden boxes coupling over a wooden beam (he was sick, and had
nothing else to do but watch the clocks), a few weeks later 
experimentally he verified it was vibration (in fact, if you
do the experiment you'll discover the vibration is very 
visible). 

Presumably, very heavy mechanical oscillators in a vacuum
completely isolated from vibration would couple gravitationally.

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