----- Original Message ----- From: Jones Beene <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 10:36 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow
> Harry > > >> MJ: More seriously, 36 hours is no big feat, a simple pendulum > can run > >> much longer than that while swapping potential energy with kinetic > >> energy, just like magmos do. > > > I think such a pendulum would have to swing higher and higher > when it > > first starts to run for the comparison to be valid. > > > There are standard oscillators which do increase in frequency before > eventually fading. > > Google: "Tibetan bowls" or "singing bowls". > > These are oscillators not gainful, yet some will "sing" for 20 > minutes after > being struck once (reportedly) and will gain in pitch - thus the > "singing".That is surprising. hmmm...standard physics would say the sound intensity (volume) would decrease as the pitch went up. If it doesn't then that would indicate OU. Harry
