{"id":5531,"date":"2010-05-19T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2010-05-19T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:00:35","slug":"stop-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5531","title":{"rendered":"Stop the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=411529\">Foucault&#8217;s pendulum is sent crashing to Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The original pendulum, which was used by French scientist Leon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth and which forms an integral part of Eco&#8217;s novel&#8217;s labyrinthine plot, has been irreparably damaged in an accident in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The pendulum&#8217;s cable snapped last month and its sphere crashed to the marble floor of the Musee des Arts et Metiers.<\/p>\n<p>In 1851, Foucault used the pendulum to perform a sensational demonstration in the Paris Pantheon, proving to Napoleon III and the Parisian elite that the Earth revolved around its axis. Such was its success that the experiment was replicated throughout Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foucault&#8217;s pendulum is sent crashing to Earth The original pendulum, which was used by French scientist Leon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth and which forms an integral part of Eco&#8217;s novel&#8217;s labyrinthine plot, has been irreparably damaged &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}