C N GIFFORD THE FINAL AUTHORITY ON ALL THINGS FOUCAULT

BY FAR THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF DR KARLS LIFE IS THE ETHICAL DILEMNA POSED BY FOUCAULTS PENDULUM. DR KARL HAS CHOSEN TO WED HIS OWN LONG (SINCE 1993) AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER AS JULIUS SUMNER MILLER FELLOW, SCIENCE FOUNDATUION, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, WITH FOUCAULTS PENDULUM. HE PROUDLY LISTS THE CONSTRUCTION OF 2 WORKING MODELS OF THIS VENERATED ICON (QVB & ABC BLDGS) AMONG TOOLS HE HAS SUCCESSFULLY USED IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE TO THE BROADER COMMUNITY. SO HE IS ON RECORD, ABOUT AS EMPHATICALLY AS HE COULD POSSIBLY BE, AS ENDORSING FOUCAULTS PENDULUM AS THE GOLD STANDARD FOR GOOD SCIENCE.

NOW, ALONG COMES THE NEWS THAT WHAT FOUCAULTS PENDULUM ACTUALLY REPRESENTS IS A REEKING PILE OF PRETENTIOUS NONSENSE. HOW TERRIBLY INCONVENIENT FOR DR KARL! BUT PERHAPS NOT REALLY UNFAIR. AFTER ALL, DR KARL KNEW ALL ALONG THAT THE SEED OF LEON FOUCAULTS DISCOVERY TOOK ROOT ENTIRELY BY CHANCE, WHEN HE NOTICED THAT: IF YOU MOUNT A VIBRATING PENDULUM ON A TURNTABLE, THE SWING PATH OF THE PENDULUM CAN BE IMMUNE (MORE OR LESS, UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS) TO THE ROTATION OF ITS MOUNT.

FOUCAULT THEN IMAGINED A PENDULUM PLANTED SQUARELY OVER THE NORTH OR SOUTH POLE, AND SWINGING BACK AND FORTH AS EARTHS SURFACE ROTATED BENEATH IT. SURELY, HE FANTASIZED, A BIG POLAR-MOUNTED PENDULUM WOULD PERFORM PRECISELY LIKE A LITTLE TURNTABLEMOUNTED ONE. I.E.: THE SWING PATH OF THE BOB WOULD BE IMMUNE TO THE ROTATION OF ITS MOUNT (EARTH). IF THE BOBS SWING PATH SHOULD ROTATE, IN RELATION TO EARTHS SURFACE, THAT WOULD BE DYNAMIC (AS OPPOSED TO ASTRONOMICAL) EVIDENCE OF EARTHS ROTATION. VOILA! I SHOULD BE BLUSHINGI AM SUCH A CLEVER GENIUS!*

* EXCEPT FOR A FEW LITTLE NIGGLING (RATIONAL) DETAILS.

E.G: THE ROTATING EARTH-AT THE--POLES IS

NOT ANALOGOUS
TO A ROTATING MAN-MADE-MACHINE * KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE AXISNOT THE BOB. THE CONTROL THE FORCE TRANSMITTED THROUGH A TURNTABLE HAS ON THE SWING PATH OF A PENDULUM IS A DIRECT FUNCTION OF THE MAN-MADE MECHANICS. BY DESIGN, ANY CONTROL EXERCISED BY THE MOUNT MUST BE TRANSMITTED THROUGH A SINGLE GEOMETRIC POINT, THE AXIS THE WEIGHT-BEARING SUSPENSION POINT. THE AXIS IMMUNITY TO THE MOUNTS ROTATION IS DIRECTLY FACTORED BY TWO COMPETING FORCES 1) THE ROTATING FORCE SENT FROM THE MOUNT & 2) THE TO & FRO FORCE SENT FROM THE SWINGING BOB

THIS IS MULTI-TASKING AT ITS MOST BASICLIKE WALKING DOWN AN UP ESCALATOR. ITS ALL A MATTER OF COMPETITION, AND VECTORS. DEPENDING ON RELATIVE FORCE MAGNITUDES, THE SWINGING BOB CAN DOMINATE, THE ROTATING MOUNT CAN DOMINATE, OR THERE CAN BE A SLOPPY TRUCE WITH PARTIAL INFLUENCE BY EACH.. THE CRUCIAL FACT IS: THE MECHANICS OF THE AXIAL JOINT ARE AN INTERACTION BETWEEN 2 MAN-MADE FORCES. (AND MAN-MADE FORCES ARE TEMPORARY, REPRESENT THE TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY, AND HAVE FINITE RESULTS. ALL RESULTS OF MAN-MADE FORCE REPRESENT CHANGE.)

IN CONTRAST, THE MECHANICS OF A POLAR-PLACED PENDULUM ARE AN INTERACTION BETWEEN THE MAN-MADE FORCE OF THE SWINGING BOB AND THE NATURAL FORCE OF EARTHS GRAVITY. WHICH MAKES, AS IT WERE, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE. A GRAVITY FIELD IS A UNITY OF PARTICLES, A SINGLE ENTITY. EARTHS ASTRONOMICAL MOVEMENTS ARE PERPETUAL, DO NOT INVOLVE THE TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY, AND HAVE INFINITE RESULTS. WHATEVER MOTION THE FIELD MAKES, EACH PARTICLE LIKEWISE MAKES. THE MOTIONS NATURAL TO THE FIELD ARE NATURAL TO EACH PARTICLE. NATURAL PLANETARY MOTIONS REPRESENT CONTINUITY, NOT CHANGE, AND MOTION VS. SPACE, NOT VS. A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD. SPACE IS A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT MOTION DIMENSION THAN THE INTERIOR OF A GRAVITY FIELD. THERE ARE ONLY 2 POSSIBLE WAYS AN EARTHLY OBJECT MAY ACQUIRE IMMUNITY FROM EARTHS GRAVITY. 1) THE PSEUDO-IMMUNITY PRODUCED BY GYROSCOPIC FORCE OR 2) THE TRUE IMMUNITY OBTAINABLE ONLY BY REACHING A HORIZONTAL VELOCITY VS. EARTH OF 18,000 MPH.

SO THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MAN-MADE PENDULUM OVER A POLE AND A MAN-MADE PENDULUM AT ANY OTHER POINT ON EARTHS SURFACE. EVERY MILIGRAM OF EVERY PENDULUMTHE MOVING PARTS AND THE NONMOVING PARTSNATURALLY CIRCLE EARTHS IMAGINARY AXIS ONCE A DAY, WHILE CIRCLEING THE SUN ONCE A YEAR. AS YOU ARE DRIVING YOUR CAR ALL OVER CREATION, DOES ANYTHING AT ALL GIVE AWAY THE (ASTRONOMICAL) FACTS THAT YOU, YOUR CAR, AND THE ROAD UNDER AND IN FRONT OF YOU ARE DOING A SOLAR LAP @66,000 mph WHILE ROTATING EASTWARD @ THE LOCAL LINEAR VELOCITY EQUIVALENT TO 360 PER DAY? ABSOLUTELY NOT. THE CRUCIAL POINT HERE IS NOT THAT YOU AND EARTH ARE TRAVELLING AT THE SAME RATE (BECAUSE YOURE NOT), BUT THAT YOU AND EVERY OTHER EARTHLY PARTICLE SHARE THE SAME NATURAL SOLAR ORBIT MECHANICS. IF YOURE MATHCOMPULSIVE, YOU CAN CONVERT YOUR LINEAR SURFACE TRAVEL TO ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT VS EARTHS CENTER. DURING THE TIME OF YOUR TRIP, YOU CAN FIGURE THE ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT OF EARTHS CENTER . YOUR CARS TRAVEL CAN BE EXPRESSED AS DITTO THE ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT JUST STATED FOR EARTHS CENTER, PLUS THE LINEAR DELTA GENERATED BY YOUR MAN-MADE MOVEMENT. ON EACH SIDE OF THE EQUATION, THE NATURAL PLANETARY MOTIONS OF EARTH MAY BE EXPRESSED AS 1. LIKE I SAID: PLANETARY MOTIONS DO NOT REPRESENT ACCELERATION (CHANGE) FOR ANY EARTHLY PARTICLES, WHETHER THEY BE AT REST OR IN MOTION.

SO TO EXPECT EARTHS ROTATION TO ACT AS AN ACCELERATOR VS ANY PART OF A SWINGING PENDULUM, AT ANY GEOGRAPHIC POINT, IS TO SHOW A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF GRAVITY. THERE IS NOTHING MAGICAL ABOUT AN AGITATED SUSPENDED WEIGHT, REGARDLESS OF HOW EXPENSIVE &/OR SHINY IT MAY BE OR HOW MANY ARCANE MATHEMATICAL INCANTATIONS ARE REVERENTLY UTTERED IN ITS HONOR. BELIEVING (AND TEACHING) OTHERWISE IS IGNORANTHARMFUL RATHER THAN HELPFUL TOWARD THE PROCESS OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION. LEON FOUCAULT WAS A DIM-WITTED, AGENDA-DRIVEN OPPORTUNIST. HIS BIG HONKING PENDULUM WAS JUST A GLORIFIED HALF-ASSED PRIMITIVE TIMEPIECE. THE SAME GOES, IN SPADES, FOR EVERY COPY PRODUCED SINCE 1851. INCLUDING, UNFORTUNATELY, DR KARLS 2 CHERISHED MODELS THERE IN SYDNEY. THE AWFUL DILEMNA DR KARL NOW FACES IS WHETHER TO GO INTO STUBBORN HELL-BENT DENIAL, LEAVING THE PARADIGM CHANGE AS WORK FOR A FUTURE GENERATION, OR TO MAN UP, FACE THE FACTS, AND BE AUSTRALIAS MESSIAH AS FAR AS DRAGGING INSTITUTIONALIZED SCIENCE INTO THE 21ST CENTURY. THATS PROBABLY AN AGONIZING CHOICE TO HAVE TO MAKE. THE PARADIGM CHANGE IS INEVITIBLE. HISTORY WILL EVENTUALLY REPORT WHO LED THE WAY AND WHO OBSTRUCTED.

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