accelerator clock, dream by jeremy.rutman -- March 29, 2024
My gradscgool friend Israel K who had gone on to be a prof of physics was proudly telling me about a grant he got from Intel. We were at the site of a new accelerator of some sort. The Technion my old grad school was building the accelerator part and a bunch of other institutions were building other parts, and there was a big machine learning component to the whole project. We were talking in the mostly finished foyer where there was a giant clock hand of cast iron wrapped up in tape and held against a wall to keep it from moving. I remarked that a pendulum of that sort free to swing on a fine cable might be a good way to measure gravity given that you have many swings for better stats. Israel said maybe you could use the deflection of the pendulum along its trajectory for this measurement, allowing it to take a slightly chaotic journey without being fixed in any particular plane.
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