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

2010-05-13 Thread clock trust
Dear all A potted history. Before I start a warning I suffer from dyslexia and twitter like a buddie, not a god combination. The aim of the effort in writting this is to forge a way forward to get young people involved with the concept of time and the recording of it. Hence

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

2010-05-13 Thread Alan Melia
and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 7:12:55 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 70, Issue 31 Is it possible that mechanical (pendulum) clocks could couple not due to energy transfer between the clocks but external mechanical events such as seismic events

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

2010-05-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:09:02AM +0100, Alan Melia wrote: Nice reference thanks for those Stanley...interesting, thought provoking reading! Moving apart and possibly changining the relative positions of the plane of the swing too to test the coupling. There are ways of measuring this if you

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

2010-05-13 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If gravity effects are the coupling mechanism, then even pendulums are speed of light coupled. Bob On May 13, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:09:02AM +0100, Alan Melia wrote: Nice reference thanks for those Stanley...interesting, thought provoking

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

2010-05-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
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

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

2010-05-13 Thread Stanley Reynolds
: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 70, Issue 31 Nice reference thanks for those Stanley...interesting, thought provoking reading! Moving apart and possibly changining the relative positions of the plane of the swing too to test the coupling.  There are ways of measuring this if you have the time

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

2010-05-12 Thread Christopher Hoover
On 5/12/2010 10:41 AM, Jim Lux wrote: It never occurred to me that they might couple, although almost every other mechanical clock does. What would the mechanism be? Perhaps if all of them run off the same reservoir ___ time-nuts mailing

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

2010-05-12 Thread Alan Melia
- Original Message - From: Christopher Hoover c...@murgatroid.com To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:00 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 70, Issue 31 On 5/12/2010 10:41 AM, Jim Lux wrote: It never occurred to me that they might couple, although almost every

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

2010-05-12 Thread Stanley Reynolds
-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 7:12:55 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 70, Issue 31 Is it possible that mechanical (pendulum) clocks could couple not due to energy transfer between the clocks but external  mechanical events such as seismic events of a very low level