Re: Help me understand Foucault's pendulum?


Alan French wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/pendulum.htm

It always returns to the same thing,whether the Newtonian ballistic
agenda or its exotic 20th century extensions,the value to assign to
axial rotation.

The Wiki articles determines 23 hours 56 min for the poles while
another group correctly identifies the value as 24 hours or 15 degrees
of rotation per hour -

http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/students/baker/SouthPoleFoucault.html

The astronomical principles only support 15 degrees per hour derived
from the two step process which renders the pre-Copernican equable 24
hour day derived from the noon Equation of Time correction into its
heliocentric adaption to the principle that the Earth has an
independent axial rotation.

The entire empirical framework supporting the hideous correlation
between the return of a star to a meridian and axial rotation is built
on a false premise -

"Flamsteed used the star Sirius as a timekeeper correcting the sidereal
time obtained from successive transits of the star into solar time, the
difference of course being due to the rotation of the Earth round the
Sun. Flamsteed wrote in a letter in 1677:-

.... our clocks kept so good a correspondence with the Heavens that I
doubt it not but they would prove the revolutions of the Earth to be
isochronical... "

The correlation between clocks,terrestial longitudes and axial
rotation is based strictly between our parent star and the motions of
the Earth therefore appeals to the stellar background in determining
axial rotation prove to be sterile,barren and counter-productive.

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