By JJ Robinson | January 18th, 2010
Physicists from around the world converged on the Maldives together with astronomers and the simply curious to watch the spectacular eclipse on the weekend.
While most spectators were content with the dramatic sight of the rare annular eclipse – not to be repeated for another thousand years – these scientists were out to rewrite the laws of gravity.
Professor Hector Munera and Ed Oberg, two of the seven scientists known as ‘pendulum specialists’, gave a talk to the at Mandu College last night about the work they have conducted during their visit to the Maldives.
interesting no?..
“Allais effect”
Little bit of questioning convention also me thinks; “It was a significant finding because unlike mathematics, physics is not theoretical; it has to reflect the real world and good experiments demand modification of the theory.”
AE&A