Re: [Phys-L] Mesmerizing

[Ze'ev Wurman <zeev@ieee.org>]

Perhaps. I noticed it too, but my guess (w/o any calculation) was that 
the perfect anti-phase is a unstable equilibrium point and it takes some 
random perturbation to move out of it.

On 9/14/2013 3:30 PM, Chuck Britton wrote:
> Watch the one in the second row at the far right.
> It is recalcitrant and they may have tweaked the video to get it right.
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Ze'ev Wurman <zeev@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> > Much harder to achieve with electronic metronomes :-)
> >
> > http://io9.com/5947112/watch-32-discordant-metronomes-achieve-synchrony-in-a-matter-of-minutes
> >
> >
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