Groupthink metronomes
Discussion
Here's a link to a very neat SCIENCE! video;
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2...
There's a good explanation under the video. I believe the same effect is seen when many pendulum clocks are fixed to the same wall (but presumably they would take much longer to get into sync.)
Nick
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2...
There's a good explanation under the video. I believe the same effect is seen when many pendulum clocks are fixed to the same wall (but presumably they would take much longer to get into sync.)
Nick
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