Look Around You

[MichaelW2]

As the first part of a series in honour of the beloved 1970's school science TV programme, may I present " The Isochrinous Curve."

View: https://youtu.be/eBc827pwKf0


Please feel free to contribute the wonderful, mysterious and amazing.

 

[MartinQ]

As the first part of a series in honour of the beloved 1970's school science TV programme, may I present " The Isochrinous Curve."

View: https://youtu.be/eBc827pwKf0
Please feel free to contribute the wonderful, mysterious and amazing.

I like the description of it as
"The Helen of Geometers" as it caused frequent quarrels among 17th-century mathematicians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloid

 

[raleighnut]

I remember that one

 

[Tribansman]

Sunrises/sunsets. Never cease to marvel at them.

 

[PaulB]

Sunrises/sunsets. Never cease to marvel at them.

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I stood on that spot all night once wondering where the sun had gone, and then it dawned on me.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I stood on that spot all night once wondering where the sun had gone, and then it dawned on me.

I bet you were in the dark during that wondering

 

[MartinQ]

I stood on that spot all night once wondering where the sun had gone, and then it dawned on me.

I tried as well, but there was too much dusk to see anything.

 

[Tribansman]

I stood on that spot all night once wondering where the sun had gone, and then it dawned on me.

Listen here sunny, that's enough of that.

 

[Chris S]

 

[PapaZita]

View: https://youtu.be/mZBwsm6B280

 

[Rezillo]

 

[Ming the Merciless]

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Here is a similar one done in the UK