Re: Swirling grass experiment
Dr Jones ( maitland@icarus.ihug.co.nz )
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:49:02 +1200
At 23:19 8/04/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Sometime ago I read on KeelyNet (I believe) about an experiment where
>you could put a record turntable under a flat of grass and leave it
>running while the grass grows. The grass was supposed to grow in a
>swirl.
>
I think it has something to dowith DePalma's work. The idea was that
rotating masses affect grwoing things, and I believe that he was doing
experiments along that vein when I visited last year. the other one was the
passage of time near rotating objects.
The key to the whole thing was mass. You had to have a fair whack of stuff
rotating.
Anyway, intersting to note that the plants in the centre died. Maybe they
just got giddy as they grew up. How old were they when they died?
DrJ
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