{"id":2187,"date":"2009-07-05T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2009-07-05T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T20:28:11","slug":"aligned-with-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"aligned with the big bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/07\/parisfoucault1450jpg.JPG' alt='parisfoucault1450jpg.JPG' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/07\/parisfoucault2450.JPG' alt='parisfoucault2450.JPG' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/07\/parisfoucault3450.JPG' alt='parisfoucault3450.JPG' \/><\/p>\n<p>Last friday i was at the pantheon which hosts the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foucault_pendulum\">Foucault pendulum<\/a> and was thus according to Igor Bogdanov sort of &#8220;aligned with the initial singularity&#8221; :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;We draw from the above that whatever the orientation, the plane of oscillation of Foucault&#8217;s pendulum is necessarily aligned with the initial singularity marking the origin of physical space&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (source: &#8220;Topological Origin of Inertia&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/tel.archives-ouvertes.fr\/docs\/00\/04\/49\/04\/PDF\/tel-00001503.pdf\">p.155<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>(the initial singularity is sometimes also called big bang). If this sounds controversial to you then check this out: -><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bogdanov_Affair\">Bogdanov affair.<\/a><br \/>\nAs a matter of fact the Bogdanov brothers are advertized all over Paris with their new book:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/06\/parisbogdanov450.jpg' alt='parisbogdanov450.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,7,17,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}