Quantum pendulum clock overcomes classical accuracy limits and sheds light on quantum to classical transitions

In a grandfather clock, a pendulum swings back and forth and this periodic motion is maintained using the energy stored in ...
New Scientist

First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from

Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping in the quantum realm ...
RealClearScience

Why Pendulum Clocks Synchronize

Hang two pendulum clocks on the same wall, and over time, something strange will happen: the two clocks will tick in synchrony. Renowned Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, the inventor of the ...
Forbes

Pendulum, Pendulum On The Wall: This 'Odd Kind Of Sympathy' Syncs Them All

In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings ...
The Atlantic

Building an Impossible Clock

As a rule, Donald Saff doesn’t collect clocks he can’t see inside of. It’s the harmonic entanglement of gears—and the skill needed to craft them—that first lured him to horology, the study of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Can Sound Explain a 350-Year-Old Clock Mystery?

Christiaan Huygens was a busy scholar. Among his many achievements, the Dutch scientist figured out the shape of Saturn's rings and discovered that planet's largest moon, Titan. He founded the theory ...