> Yes, others working with pendulums have also discovered that they end > up making crude thermometers, barometers, or seismometers instead of a > good clock. Still, not a reason to give up. But you know you have a > world-class pendulum clock when, after having solved every other > perturbation, you can see the effects of lunar tides in your data (as > your good pendulum clock demonstrates it is also a fair gravimeter).
That seems like a neat threshold. Are current pendulum clocks good enough to notice tides? When was the first published paper? If not, how close? -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
