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Did You Notice Any Change On Google's Homepage Today? by Kslib(m): 10:18pm On Sep 18, 2013
I wanted to use google to search for something today,only to be greeted by a swinging pendulum on their homepage. shocked shocked. It was weird,so i did a quick google to search and found out that the animation was in honor of Leon Foucault's 194th birthday...
Make sure say you do better thing when you dey alive, so that when you kick bucket,you sef will be remembered...
Just a piece of advice: if you use operamini on mobile,i dont think you'll see the image on google's homepage.. Use ucweb if you're on mobile..
Read below...
kslib: Today’s Google Doodle Honors Léon Foucault’s 194th Birthday With a Gorgeously Animated Pendulum....

if you’ve managed to get yourself over to the main page of Google this morning, you probably saw a real pretty pendulum slowly swinging around and knocking over stuff in its path. That’s a Foucault pendulum, named so after the guy who first invented it.

If you’re more of an entertainment nerd than a science one, you might also recognize this pendulum because of a similar one that appeared in Lost:

lamp post

The Lamp Post (because everything in Lost had a weird cryptic name) was used to track where in space and time the Island would appear in the later seasons of the show. It’s a totally fictional thing, so we don’t actually know how it would have been able to monitor disruptions in electromagnetic energy and changes in the Earth’s gravity, or… whatever. But we do know how an actual Foucault pendulum demonstrates the Earth’s rotation around its axis.

Foucault’s experiment worked like this: a weighted pendulum was tied to the end of a six foot wire, which would slowly swing back and forth, making marks in a pile of sand as it reached the longest point in its period. Eventually the marks made would form a bow-tie shape as the pendulum swung. Because an object does not change direction unless acted upon by another force (Thanks, Newton!), Foucault concluded that the reason the pendulum didn’t constantly hit the same mark is because the Earth was turning underneath it.

Since that first experiment was done in 1851, Foucault’s pendulum has been reconstructed all over the world — there’s one in the Pantheon in Paris, another in the Musée des Arts in Metiérs, one in the United Nations Building in New York, and dozens more in other museums and government buildings. However, they probably don’t allow you to adjust which hemisphere of Earth and at which point in the pendulum’s cycle you’re watching, which this Doodle does. Score one for Google, we guess.
http://www.geekosystem.com/leon-foucault-google-doodle/

Re: Did You Notice Any Change On Google's Homepage Today? by Nobody: 10:49pm On Sep 18, 2013
Yes, I saw it.

Google frequently puts up those kind of stuff for some people.
smiley
Re: Did You Notice Any Change On Google's Homepage Today? by Kslib(m): 10:52pm On Sep 18, 2013
Jekyll & Hyde:
Yes, I saw it.

Google frequently puts up those kind of stuff for some people.
smiley
Yea!! For some selected few,who contributed something positive to humanity..
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All izz well!

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