"Ms Hawking: The Dharma Initiative called it 'The Lamp Post'. This..is how they found the island."
How do you find an island with a pendulum? There is another pendulum on the island!
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/pendulums/coupledpendulumsexplore.html
And they used Coupled Resonant Pendulums. Take two identical pendulum and couple them. I would suggest that in Lost they used electromagnetism as the means of coupling.
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Lamp_post
"The station was built by the DHARMA Initiative over a pocket of electromagnetic energy beneath Los Angeles."
And of course, we know the island has electromagnetic energy beneath it. So, this is one possible method of coupling. Regardless, however coupled that is what's happening.
Let me explain how you can deduce location through pendulum coupling:
"Pendulums are affected by changes in gravitational acceleration, which varies by as much as 0.5% at different locations on Earth." In other words, gravity is different in different locations. If one could chart the gravitations of the Earth, one could measure the route of one coupled pendulum from the other.Each is in a location of a specific gravity. Take one pendulum, say the one at the Lamp Post, take a measure of the gravity in that location and adjust for the resonant influence confered upon it by the distantly coupled pendulum, say the one on the island. Each coupled pendulum influences the other and seeks for an equilibrium, a unified frequency. However, neither is true to it's location, since it is influenced by the other. So, as a control experiment, you must first uncouple one pendulum and take a gravity measurement. Then you re-couple and take another measurement. From the difference of measurements you can determine the influence the island pendulum has on the L! ampost and its gravity depth, which can be geographically identified. Now, for a mathematician, this is a relatively easy equation to calculate. However, the island is moving. And that is why the Elloise's chalk board calculations are so in depth and complicated, but still reconcilable.
Here is another reference to support part of my claim:
http://www.reference.com/browse/pendulum
"pendulum
pendulum, a mass, called a bob, suspended from a fixed point so that it can swing in an arc determined by its momentum and the force of gravity. The length of a pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to the center of gravity of the bob (see center of mass). Chance observation of a swinging church lamp (is this where the Lamp Post got its name?) led Galileo to find that a pendulum made every swing in the same time, independent of the size of the arc. He used this discovery in measuring time in his astronomical studies...
"...Since gravity varies from place to place, the pendulum has been used to determine the shape and mass of the earth by measuring the intensity of gravity."
If you accept my premise the question becomes, who created the island pendulum? Normally, I would say Faraday. However, he probably didn't have the means to create it before Dharma arrived on the island, even if he was able to get to a time period prior to their arrival. Remember, Dharma first found the island by means of the pendulum. So, Daniel is an unlikely candidate for the island's pendulum construction. That would leave the Egyptians!
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Great-Pyramid-Kevin-Jackson/dp/1552977218
"The work describes building techniques of Sneferu and provides numerous pictures of pyramidal structures. It explains how priests or Thoth presided over formal ceremonies. In addition, there is a picture showing how Khufu utilized a pendulum to align the pyramid with the stars. The work is a marvel which depicts life in Egypt over 4000 years ago."
http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/archeo/egypt/egypt.html
Take a look at the last photo on the bottom left. I assume from the context of the page this pendulum was found in the Ghiza pyramids.
(Today is 4/29/09, 3:13PM, before the 100th Episode... just in case I am proven right immediately)
How do you find an island with a pendulum? There is another pendulum on the island!
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/pendulums/coupledpendulumsexplore.html
And they used Coupled Resonant Pendulums. Take two identical pendulum and couple them. I would suggest that in Lost they used electromagnetism as the means of coupling.
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Lamp_post
"The station was built by the DHARMA Initiative over a pocket of electromagnetic energy beneath Los Angeles."
And of course, we know the island has electromagnetic energy beneath it. So, this is one possible method of coupling. Regardless, however coupled that is what's happening.
Let me explain how you can deduce location through pendulum coupling:
"Pendulums are affected by changes in gravitational acceleration, which varies by as much as 0.5% at different locations on Earth." In other words, gravity is different in different locations. If one could chart the gravitations of the Earth, one could measure the route of one coupled pendulum from the other.Each is in a location of a specific gravity. Take one pendulum, say the one at the Lamp Post, take a measure of the gravity in that location and adjust for the resonant influence confered upon it by the distantly coupled pendulum, say the one on the island. Each coupled pendulum influences the other and seeks for an equilibrium, a unified frequency. However, neither is true to it's location, since it is influenced by the other. So, as a control experiment, you must first uncouple one pendulum and take a gravity measurement. Then you re-couple and take another measurement. From the difference of measurements you can determine the influence the island pendulum has on the L! ampost and its gravity depth, which can be geographically identified. Now, for a mathematician, this is a relatively easy equation to calculate. However, the island is moving. And that is why the Elloise's chalk board calculations are so in depth and complicated, but still reconcilable.
Here is another reference to support part of my claim:
http://www.reference.com/browse/pendulum
"pendulum
pendulum, a mass, called a bob, suspended from a fixed point so that it can swing in an arc determined by its momentum and the force of gravity. The length of a pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to the center of gravity of the bob (see center of mass). Chance observation of a swinging church lamp (is this where the Lamp Post got its name?) led Galileo to find that a pendulum made every swing in the same time, independent of the size of the arc. He used this discovery in measuring time in his astronomical studies...
"...Since gravity varies from place to place, the pendulum has been used to determine the shape and mass of the earth by measuring the intensity of gravity."
If you accept my premise the question becomes, who created the island pendulum? Normally, I would say Faraday. However, he probably didn't have the means to create it before Dharma arrived on the island, even if he was able to get to a time period prior to their arrival. Remember, Dharma first found the island by means of the pendulum. So, Daniel is an unlikely candidate for the island's pendulum construction. That would leave the Egyptians!
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Great-Pyramid-Kevin-Jackson/dp/1552977218
"The work describes building techniques of Sneferu and provides numerous pictures of pyramidal structures. It explains how priests or Thoth presided over formal ceremonies. In addition, there is a picture showing how Khufu utilized a pendulum to align the pyramid with the stars. The work is a marvel which depicts life in Egypt over 4000 years ago."
http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/archeo/egypt/egypt.html
Take a look at the last photo on the bottom left. I assume from the context of the page this pendulum was found in the Ghiza pyramids.
(Today is 4/29/09, 3:13PM, before the 100th Episode... just in case I am proven right immediately)
