This is pretty cool, and while there are elements at play here that slightly alter a perfect outcome, (slight differences in weight, air motion, length of tether, attachment, etc.), if this were done with perfectly duplicating the conditions of each tethered-ball pendulum in a vacuum, it would return to exactly the same configuration it started with, (the result here is slightly off). This is a great simulation of chaos theory and the math involved, and why some people feel, (myself included), that there is ORDER in even in the most seemingly jumbled and fractured chaos that exists, (the Universe being the largest and most disordered of such environments we know of). At a couple points in this demonstration the balls look to be in complete disarray, but they are just as in sync in their motion as they were almost immediately after they started ... and the coolest part is that the math involved is really quite simple. Could our Universe be similarly simple in its order, but just on such a massive scale that its imperceivable? Many believe so, and point to the Big Bang, where everything began from a single, infinitesimally small point, and has been following the same ordered expansion that it began with. Will that very simply ordered beginning be the place that everything returns to? Will the ultimate end of the Universe be that same singular point where it began?
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:47:17 +0000
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