I honestly had never invested much time into thinking about how a pendulum works or how it has affected the entire world until I read this article. Think of a world with no accurate way of keeping time. Appointments couldn't be specific because time wouldn't be kept to the minute. We wouldn't be able to clock in and out of work. How would MTSU schedule classes without accurate time? Life on earth would be absolutely chaotic without the pendulum. The article mentioned five investigations that couldn't be calculated without the pendulum, but there are many more investigations that couldn't take place without accurate time keeping. The pendulum really did change a lot for not only science, but also for the world over.
"The study of pendulum motion illustrates how science may be influenced by social and economic problems, and how science can in turn impact society.This mutual impact is not unusual, and is illustrated throughout historical and contemporary science and society." This quote from the article sums up how pendulum motion along with other scientific investigations can strongly impact life on earth. I may not be a scientist, and I have never had much of a cientific mind, but it amazes me how helpful science really is.
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