Paraconical Pendulum
The paraconical pendulum is a type of pendulum invented in the 1950s by Maurice Allais, a French researcher. During the 1950s, Maurice Allais conducted six marathon series of long-term observations, during each of which his team manually operated and manually monitored his pendulum non-stop over about a month. The objective was to investigate possible changes over time of the characteristics of the motion, hypothesized to yield information about asymmetries of inertial space (sometimes described as "aether flow"). Characterization and experiments The defining feature of the "paraconical" or "ball-borne" pendulum is that the pendulum's fulcrum is the changing point of contact between a spherical metal ball and a flat surface on which the ball rests. The pendulum therefore loses energy to rolling friction but not sliding friction, and is able to swing freely in both dimensions (forward-backward and side-to-side), similar to an ordinary conical pendulum. The main difference between ...
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