#astrophysics — 2 discussions

Hello all, This is just my introduction. Thank you for all this knowledge contribution on this platform and soon to contribute my own cosmic ideas. Promise to not leave you waiting ;)

The standard explanation of the Foucault pendulum is purely kinematic: the plane of oscillation stays fixed in inertial space while the planet rotates beneath it. But Norman Phillips (2000, 2001) showed that real forces — the horizontal component of Newtonian gravitation and centrifugal...