Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Eclipses! Sure, why not?

There's enough sciencey goodness packed into this article it'll make (casting around madly for a similie) err, a chocolate truffle taste like angel-food cake! (Yay! Tastes like, success!)

"Stuart Eves thinks that demonstrating a role for infrasound might explain some other puzzling phenomena associated with eclipses.

For example, long period Foucault pendulums - designed to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth - have been known to swing wildly during eclipses."

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