Like other environmental effects this external impulse would have to have a precise period to move a set of non-synced clocks toward sync otherwise it is just noise. If the impulse is strong then it becomes the clock, or if it is precise again it is the clock, otherwise it is noise the clock maker would like to remove. This reminds me of chaos theory clocks tend toward random periods.
Stanley ----- Original Message ---- From: Alan Melia <[email protected]> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 5:09:02 AM Subject: Re: [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 :-)) My thought was that even an uncoupled set might move closer together if all subject to the same external "impulse"? Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stanley Reynolds" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 2:19 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 70, Issue 31 That would not explain the lessing of the effect as the clocks are moved father from each other or arranged as sides of a triangle. Maybe gravity between the pendulums or more likely vibrations. http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Synchronization http://www.siam.org/pdf/news/481.pdf http://www.bhi.co.uk/hj/Coupled%20Pendulums%20Quadrature%20and%20Clocks%20by%20John%20Haine.pdf http://www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/MS%2344.Resonance/ms44.pdf Stanley ----- Original Message ---- From: Alan Melia <[email protected]> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> 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 ?? or even gravitational or lunar gravitational effects.?? Maybe the same for water clocks ?? Alan G3NYK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Hoover" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> 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 > > other mechanical clock does. > > > > What would the mechanism be? > > > > Perhaps if all of them run off the same reservoir .... > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
