32 metronomes started randomly. end up in sync. physics wins again.

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i don't know much about science...but would that have happened if they were on a flat, fixed surface?
 
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Mr. Somebody said:
What does this prove again? I guess im missing the significance.
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pendulums and other objects that move side to side have some almost eerie physics that isn't necessarily intuitive

the inbuilt nature of the thing swinging left and right is to continue swinging in the pattern it was started, but here because they share a surface they affect each others' swing in a perfect way.

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The phrase odd sympathy appears in the record of a letter by Dutch mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens (1629–95) to Sir Robert Moray as presented to the Royal Society of London, relating to the tendency of two pendulum clocks to synchronize with opposite phases when suspended side by side.[1] [2] Huygens' actual phrase was une espece de sympathie. Huygens, credited with being the inventor of the pendulum clock, first noticed the effect while lying in bed.[3] His two pendulum clocks, mounted together, would end up swinging in exactly opposite directions, regardless of their respective individual initial motions. This was one of the first observations of the phenomenon of mode locking in coupled driven oscillators, which has many applications in physics.
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Wow that's great reminds me of when cocaine rocks
 
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Mr. Somebody said:
What does this prove again? I guess im missing the significance.
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I think that's the point. These types of things are going on all around us in nature, but we don't even see them. It just gives you an idea of what's really possible in nature, despite our preconceived notions.

What we're seeing is 32 disordered (random if you will) things falling into order, via a natural process. Whenever you find yourself as Mowgli arguing, "How can life have arisen from such disorder without a creator!!??!?", think back to this example.

Now, I'm not saying at all that this proves anything about evolution, but it does prove that order can arise from what we perceive as disorder, that's all.
 
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zerozero said:
pendulums and other objects that move side to side have some almost eerie physics that isn't necessarily intuitive

the inbuilt nature of the thing swinging left and right is to continue swinging in the pattern it was started, but here because they share a surface they affect each others' swing in a perfect way.

Odd sympathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BlvdBrawler said:
I think that's the point. These types of things are going on all around us in nature, but we don't even see them. It just gives you an idea of what's really possible in nature, despite our preconceived notions.

What we're seeing is 32 disordered (random if you will) things falling into order, via a natural process. Whenever you find yourself as Mowgli arguing, "How can life have arisen from such disorder without a creator!!??!?", think back to this example.

Now, I'm not saying at all that this proves anything about evolution, but it does prove that order can arise from what we perceive as disorder, that's all.
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I see. Praise God and his perfect universe :lawd:
 
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