Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

The Earth rotates, and where you are changes how you see the universe. We are introduced to Foucault’s pendulum. Moving under the influence of gravity, over the course of a day the pendulum’s ...

SOME four years since, while arranging a Foucault's pendulum for use in the class-room, it occurred to me to endeavour to obtain a permanent record of the experiment, and as the results were very good ...