Time The mystery of Huygen's clocks has been solved, almost, perhaps. For the unitiated, Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch scientist who spent some of his life trying to create a completely accurate clock using the apparatus of the time. Imagine his surprise when he placed two pendulum clocks next to each other, which, despite an initial wobble began to tell perfect time, as the pendulums swung in a perfect mirror image. It was right. It worked. But Huygens could never work out why. Trust those researchers in the US to think of something:

"It turns out that the pendulums only mirror each other when the conditions are just right."

Why do I feel so underwhelmed?

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