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“Stop, a moment! You are beautiful!” – asked the hero Goethe’s immortal tragedy. And such a desire arose not only in Faust. Mythology and sacred traditions of many nations abound episodes when the heroes stopped the movement of the stars and time. For example, the Bible tells how a Jewish commander Joshua ordered the sun and moon to stop so that he could complete the battle and prevent enemies from hiding in the darkness of the night.
Of course, this is all from the realm of fiction, but in reality impossible. And yet, time is one of the most mysterious properties. nature, and it sometimes brings such surprises that we have to just surprise shrug. For example, Paris failure – one from the secrets of the XX century, which science can not explain.
Paris crash
On the night of December 29-30, 1902, at 1:05 in Paris almost all wall pendulum clocks stopped. it an incredible event was described in the first issue of the journal “Herald knowledge “for 1903. The publication said that at that moment many Parisians felt dizzy, accompanied by nausea and fainting state.
Director of the central meteorological station of Paris then officially stated that no atmospheric anomalies for all this no time was observed. Seismographs have not noted a single case soil vibrations. However, according to experts, there was a it is a geophysical phenomenon, since only the pendulum ones stopped instruments, and the Paris failure spring clock has no effect rendered.
It is known that the pendulum in a clock oscillates under the influence of force gravity. Such a simultaneous stop of all pendulums could happen if, say, that night in Paris alone in one fell swoop removed the force of gravity, and all the inhabitants would be in weightlessness, and, accordingly, pendulums, too. Same option would be possible if the entire geographical area in overnight was in a state of free fall.
Since this is almost impossible, it remains to be assumed that oscillations arose in phase opposite to the oscillations of the pendulums. AND when summing the oscillations, they mutually destroyed. For any of options, the person will experience nausea and dizziness and, of course, will be very scared. What happened to the Parisians. Alarmed people demanded an explanation of the incident from the authorities, but a distinct no answer was reached.
Earth rotation
But here’s what is interesting to know: that night in Paris stopped only pendulums of clocks or all devices oscillating movements such as the famous Foucault pendulum? Recall that this such.
In the mid-19th century, Jean Foucault invented a device that clearly demonstrates the rotation of the Earth. First, the scientist spent experiment in a narrow circle. Later, Louis Bonaparte found out about this experience. In 1851, the future French emperor Napoleon III proposed Foucault to repeat the experiment in public under the dome of the Pantheon in Paris. During the experiment, the scientist took a load weighing 28 kilograms and suspended it to the top of the dome on a wire 67 meters long. On the at the end of the load he secured a metal tip.
Foucault Pendulum
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The pendulum oscillated over a round fence, around the edge which was poured sand. Each swing of the pendulum is sharp a rod attached to the bottom of the load dumped sand approximately three millimeters from the previous place. After about two seconds half an hour it became clear that the swing plane of the pendulum rotates clockwise relative to the ground.
In an hour, the oscillation plane turned more than 11 degrees, and in about 32 hours it made a complete revolution and returned to the former position. The scientist thus proved that if the surface Earth did not rotate, Foucault’s pendulum would not show a change plane of oscillation.
So, in the journal of observations of the Foucault pendulum, which led ministers of the Pantheon, on the night of December 29-30, 1902 no anomalies in the “behavior” of the device were not recorded, that is the pendulum hesitated as always, without any deviations and stops.
Ordered to be silent
For a long time, this fact was considered undeniable. So far in 1998 for the case did not take the French journalist Jacques Lemieux. Having spent investigation, he found that on Pantheon that night was on duty someone Claude Rando. It is clear that this person has long been gone white light, but Jacques managed to find the granddaughter of this duty officer, Madame Christina Chardren She remembered that grandfather once told her that that ill-fated night and Foucault’s pendulum behaved unusually.
Foucault’s pendulum today
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Judging by the traces drawn by the tip of the rod in the sand, he changed amplitude of oscillations and probably even stopped at some time. The grandfather did not see the very moment of this stop – you won’t watch the pendulum without taking your eyes off! But the corresponding entry in Rando’s observation journal. However, subsequently, a sheet with this The entry has been removed from the journal. Instead, they glued another where it was it is written that the night passed without incident.
The authorities strictly ordered Claude to remain silent about the fact that happened. Jacques Lemieux managed to track down this magazine, and he made sure that Madame Chardren told him the truth. The sheet in the magazine is really has been replaced. It is not clear to whom and why this was required.
Who’s guilty?
Why did the Paris crash happen? There are many versions, and among them are completely exotic.
For example, there is an opinion that the stop of the clock pendulums in Paris – this is pampering aliens. They supposedly had a peculiar psychological experiment, wanting to follow the reaction of earthlings to such an extraordinary incident. The same Jacques Lemieux succeeded establish that on the night of December 29-30, 1902 in the sky above Paris, an unknown object was recorded in the form of a large dark crimson ball that crossed the capital of France from the southeast to northwest. Information about this was in the Paris newspapers.
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An even more exotic version is that this night in the Paris area The Earth pierced through like a needle, a miniature neutron star. This is an astronomical object, which is one of the final products. evolution of stars. It usually occurs after a supernova explosion. The masses of neutron stars are comparable to the mass of the sun, but the typical radius is only 10-20 kilometers. Many neutron stars have extremely high rotation speed, up to a thousand revolutions per give me a sec.
And if such a cosmic “drill” stuck into its crossed way to the planet, it’s possible that it slipped through it, not even Noticing and not causing serious damage. But a powerful impulse the gravitational wave that arose during this led her body paths into a short-term state of weightlessness and stopped pendulums. And if at that time there were already radios, televisions and other electronic devices, the effect would be even more awesome.
It is possible the Paris glitch is associated with high solar activity. At the time of solar activity, an ejection occurs substances with strong electromagnetic energy and if it is directed to Earth, then the amount of matter does not affect gravity, but a strong perturbation of the planet’s magnetic field occurs.
Since a large number of parts of mechanical watches are made from light, conductive metals, change in the induction field can exceed the force of gravity and change the period and amplitude movement of parts, which for watches means a violation of the course or stop. This version is interesting, but does not explain why not the spring clock stopped.
It is possible that the great failure led to the Paris failure. scientist Nikola Tesla. It was during these years that he was engaged studies of magnetic fields and high frequencies in its laboratories, conducted experiments on the transfer of electricity without wires over long distances. Some believe that Tunguska meteorite is the work of Tesla. In this case, the Parisians got off a little fright.
Finally, the most mundane version: a message in the “Herald knowledge “is an ordinary duck. Ostensibly a new publication needed sensation in order to increase interest in him and increase circulation, but in fact there was no failure.
One can object to this: the stop of the clock excited the whole city. At that time, the news was mostly learned not from newspapers, but passed from mouth to mouth. The mysterious incident is wide and vivid discussed before the release of the bulletin.
As you can see, there are many versions, but not one sheds light on the nature of this mysterious phenomenon. And most likely the truth about Paris failure we will never know.
Nikolay SOSNIN
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