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Fred Bartoli
John Larkin said:Joel said:Christiaan Huygens noticed this first in 1665, except with much
slower oscillators. John Harrison solved it in his work by placing the
'oscillators' [1] in separate rooms.
What's the coupling mechanism with clocks? Just mechanical vibrations
transmitted through their frames and then through the floorboards or some
such?
Yes, that's it. Curiously, they're said to lock in anti-phase.
Pheromones are supposedly the coupling mechanism in menstrual cycle
oscillations "locking"...
Yes, I've heard and observed it. Certainly true in cats, though the
girlfriend, objecting to the idea of her enslavement to others'
pheromones, cited a snow storm of contrary studies sufficient to steal
my thunder. I yielded, lacking the inclination to sort through and
evaluate, and, given the incentive: landing myself in the doghouse if I
'won.'
Cheers,
James Arthur
Nowadays, birth-control pills contribute a strong anti-locking effect.
For the French speakers, that even have a strong anti-cloquing effect