r/oddlysatisfying • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 1d ago

Synchronising perfectly

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u/pulithi_mavan 1d ago

Can someone explain why this happens?

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u/Valuchian 1d ago

They are all on the same surface. This means that as the metronome's arm swings, whatever the majority of the metronomes are doing at that time will be how the surface is pulling.
think Newton ~ Equal and Opposite reaction. If the metronome swings one way, the table has to push equally the other

Every cycle the majority's swinging slows down or speeds up the metronomes not in sync till evenetually they are all swinging at the same time.

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u/WaldenFont 1d ago

And if you do this with a bunch of mechanical looms in a factory building, the building will collapse.

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u/roastedmarshmellows 1d ago

I’m guessing we discovered this the hard way, eh?

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u/WaldenFont 18h ago

Oh did we ever.
Curiously, the wiki makes no mention of the looms synchronizing, but the docents at the NE textile museum in Lowell explain that this was the trigger.