Posted by grim (206.162.192.40) on September 26, 2003 at 04:36:52:
In Reply to: Re: Question for Ovvyus posted by Georg Künstler on September 26, 2003 at 00:04:01:
Hi Georg
I'm not sure personally, could be a "red herring", as John put it.
Or it could be one of his clues, as he also stated. A poor example- if you had never seen an engine before,
one could draw the block, even as a working multi-view blueprint, and say it's the motive
power of an auto. But without the pics, exploded views, etc of the rest of its parts, it
would mean no clue to its operation. you could cast the block, put it in an auto, and simply look at it
doing nothing, or conjecture what was missing. A truth but not a whole truth. And still be hiding its "secret".
If the 3rd paragraph is as such, he at least tells us "pendula", more than one, plural.
A pendulum in the position he illustrates can never find it "point of rest" because to do so it would have to hang straight down.
By experiment,two pendulums on opposite sides of an axle generate a rotational torque in the axle unitl they
are allowed to hang straight.
To me it's an avenue worth investigating. It's all 50-50 at this point, but it's definitely a point that needs looking at.
Regards
grim