You Are Getting Sleeeeeeepy.....

Very cool!

And my wife would just say, "So? That's nice dear."

She totally doesn't get the nerdy fascination so many of us are infected with.

Mine, too.

They don't get it.

Looks like woman are all on the same platform and tick the same way.

My first response to the story was "Why/How do they do that??"

Guess I'm the rebel on the right...

OK. Watched the video now and quickly spotted it was a flexible/unfixed surface.Interesting was that columns (front/back) synchronised before columns (side to side). Apart from the rogue one. I noticed that the rogue's period lengthened in order to get in step...much as a bellringer would do if that far out of place in round ringing.

When I was a kid, I was ALWAYS the one on the end. My Mom didn't get Science, but she GOT me! I came in once with my hair all singed off my head, my face bright red (burnt, no blisters, YET!) and soot all over my head and shoulders. She said three things:

What did you do (no pause to answer).

Dinner's in 5 minutes.

Go wash up.

Most of my friend's parents would have FREAKED! My Mom got it.

My wife gets it, but she's an artist. Things that look cool (like the metronomes) don't require a reason. The just DO!

But explaining it makes her uneasy. So I just go with the flow. And have more great art around my house than I could EVER afford to buy!

There ARE compensations to "being the one on the end".

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Good thing some of us march to the beat of a different kettle of fish, no?

"Ug, why can't you just be a normal child like the others? Why must you you draw pix of animals on the cave wall?"

"'Pix of animals', ma? Hell no! This here is the beginnings of 'written language' and is gonna make it possible for our descendants to land on Mars, ma!"

"That's nice, dear."

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Check out the archives of BBC Radio 4's "In Our Time" programme. [If the rights legislations let you] Listen to the 5 part series on the invention of language (first broadcast Jan 2012) - it's facinating. I stumbled across them last week.

It is a well-know fact that women in their reproductive years will, if grouped together for long periods of time, synchronize their menstrual cycles; grouped together such as in convents and harems, which just goes to show you that King Solomon's having 300 wives and 700 concubines - a THOUSAND woman, total - all having PMS AT THE SAME TIME is proof enough that Solomon wasn't *even* the Wisest Man Who Ever Lived.

Isn't that an urban myth?
Del

Nah. It happens in the countryside too.

[Never noticed that Mum, sis and I synchronised though. Then again, I spent 8 hours a day with a bunch of girls at school, so maybe a higher degree of sequestration is needed.]

Women's prisons would be another source of data.

One wife, two daughters, one niece. Wife slept in our bed, girls all slept in their (one) room. My wife must REALLY have a strong personality, because All of the girls synched with her, over time, but none seemed to synch with each other prior to synching with her.

Yep, I'm the one on the end. I observe these things. Too bad I didn't learn NOT to talk about my observations BEFORE finding out they didn't WANT ME TO KNOW THE RULES.

I got my ears whipped for "WAAAYYYY TMI" before I learned that lesson.

Now one is a nurse (hospital), one is a Med Tech (everywhere they need her), and my niece has gone back home.

The rest of us talk Biological Science all the time. I just don't ever "connect the dots" to my own girls, or wife.

See, Del, that's what you get for hangin' out with cats, you lucky dog.

Here's another video that brings Odd Sympathy down to a simpler display. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaxw4zbULMs

Thanks! The first video put me to sleep halfway through! (psst: how did it end? )

If you scroll down, there's a transcript.

Thanks for finding and posting this great article. GA.

ps: It would be fun to model coupled oscillators as a SPICE model and fiddle with the parameters to see what happens.

So, what does it mean if I bookmarked it??????

Are you quite sure you want to know? It's not pretty. Not at all pretty. (Waddayouthink, ER? Call me on the KrisDel ShoeFone. Stat)

Put down the metronome and back away from the table....

My ShoeFone is a stiletto...

zo, I see you too have been zmokin ze yew?
Del

I got too close to yew....