Physics: Toward a practical nuclear pendulum Date: January 27, 2017 Source: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) Summary: For the first time, researchers have measured the lifetime of an ...

The aim of this paper is to give a self-reflective account of the building of Galileo's pendulum in order to discover what were the practical contingencies of building and using the pendulum for ...