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that is all i have to say on teh subject On 7/20/07, Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 20, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: > I made a drawing of the situation I was imagining: > > http://web.ncf.ca/eo200/world-ferriswheel.html This might work if you had frictionless bearings. A better design to illustrate the principle is the Foucault pendulum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum They make for neat clocks. I have actually seen them in action. They do not keep track of 24 hour time though, they track the sidereal time, which is relative to the fixed stars and not the sun. An ideal device would complete a rotation in a sidereal day: 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.091 seconds. Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
-- That which yields isn't always weak.
