Coupled oscillators can do very interesting things above and beyond simple synchronization.
Look at the circuit at the bottom of this page with 5 cross-connected neon bulb multivibrators. http://donklipstein.com/sillyne2.html They are symmetrically cross connected favoring no particular direction. After powering up, they flash in a disorganized manner for a little bit, but then usually settle down into either a left-to-right or right-to-left sequence. I think this is "spontaneous symmetry breaking". They don't always settle down quickly. I have observed some other cycles at power-up that are more complex, and can run for many seconds before they go into the simple sequence. Tim. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
