Maybe!.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/strangely-sync-scientists-solve-350-old-pendulum-clock-134342284.html
Max.

 

OMG! Scientists "discovered" what a person instinctively knew 350 years ago.
Now we can actually use that information because it has been certified by somebody with a college degree.

 

Hmm, could it be something like this?

Something that is understood for I´d guess a few hundred years, but now that someone wrote that specific paper, we have finally solved a 350 year old "mystery"

 

from the article ...

These findings suggest that much remains unknown about how coupled pendulum clocks behave, Peña said. "There still are hidden secrets to be revealed, and consequently, further studies of this system are necessary in order to unveil more details about the complex yet intriguing synchronization phenomenon," Peña said.

There is still a need to FUND this project, as the scientists hasn't milked the government teat enough.

 

I thought the paper might be an April Fool's joke, but it's 3 days late. Just a plain joke.

 

Are you sure they really proved that? Instead of putting all metronomes on a common surface, suspend the metronomes via a spring.

Will, they not sync?

Sync slower?

Or sync faster?

 

Extending the phenomenon, if half a dozen Cesium clocks are placed side by side, will they all synchronise, saving the hardware required for generation of Master Clocks?

 

Hmm, could it be something like this?

Something that is understood for I´d guess a few hundred years, but now that someone wrote that specific paper, we have finally solved a 350 year old "mystery"

Do you know why they finally became synchronizating?

 

No.
Since I cannot afford the cost of procuring Cesium Clocks to conduct the experiment, I'm waiting .......

 

This new model says the sync is due to acoustic vibrations thru a common surface.

 

I remember learning something on these ..... "Sympathetic Resonance" was the term used; if I recollect.

Yes it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_resonance

 

I think that there is more to it than acoustic vibration.

I believe the force of gravity has two vectors. We are all familiar with the attractive vector.

I believe there is an angular vector, which is perpendicular to the attractive vector.

In the metronome example, the attractive vector is in sync via a surface.

I think we are watching gravity's angular (rotational) vector come into sync.

The pendulum's rotational vector changes in mid swing, causing a wobble, instead of full rotation.

Wobble sync.

 

Extending the phenomenon, if half a dozen Cesium clocks are placed side by side, will they all synchronise, saving the hardware required for generation of Master Clocks?

Do you mean something like this?
http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-network-would-be-most-precise-clock-yet-1.15406

 

Do you know why they finally became synchronizating?

I would be curious to try the same experiment on a massive concrete base rather than a lightweight flexible styrofoam sheet.

Odds are it wouldn't work so well without the light flexible moveable base to aid in the synchronization effect.

 

I suspected much the same. However, it could just speed things up having it on an insecure surface.

 

Do you know why they finally became synchronizating?

Because the plattform is moving left and right is my guess.

 

Do you mean something like this?
http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-network-would-be-most-precise-clock-yet-1.15406

This explores a better way to synchronise clocks, using both "mutual synchronisation" and "master slave" techniques. There is a "physical" connection involved.

I was wondering if "mutual" syncronisation can be achieved by physical proximity........