Watch The World Turn

Huge thanks to the University of Puget Sound for their help in making this video possible.

Foucault Pendulums probably are my favourite science experiment - how amazing is it that someone figured out how to watch the world turn just by watching a pendulum for a long time?

[ScopeofScience]

If you liked this video, please give it a 👍. That would really help me out!

[WangleLine]

Some people just want to watch the world turn.

That someone is Kurtis Baute.

[Jeteye]

Lets decompress the video for a minute. At 3:07 Kurtis appears in frame with a clock in the background. The time being shown as around 5:50 a.m. At 3:10 Kurtis leaves frame with the clock showing the time of around 6:15 a.m. That is around 25 mins of real world time needed to capture enough frames for a 3 sec scene. Just think about that every time Kurtis appears on screen doing a little skit. It took him 10 of mins to hours of siting in place, making small minuet movements to give the sense of motion in the final product. On top of this there is the very small window to act out each scene. He may have had 28 hours in total to shoot everything but when scenes take hours to shoot, you don't get many do overs. He had to be on-point almost every time with near zero mistakes. That is an amazing level of planing and foresight. This is dedication to a demonstration if I've every scene it. A truly amazing video sir. I salute you.

[InnocentCatfaces]

Unbelievable quality, you can truly observe the amount of work put into this, thank you Kurtis!

[SewerTapes]

As someone who has done minor stop motion projects, I understand the staggering amount of work on display here. This video is absolutely brilliant. Well done.

[NoWarInBaSingSe]

He put a high amount of work into this, This is why I hate the people who disliked this video.

[durborough]

In the museum for technology in Berlin there is a Foucault pendulum that tips over a small wooden block every few hours. So I knew the experiment already. But: I have never seen it in the way you depicted it! Your version is even more impressive! Thank you very much for your hard work!

[connierule]

That was a lot of work! I'm honestly really impressed that you were switching frame after frame after fram only in the time it takes for the pendulum to move back and forward. And over the course of 32 hours?! Honestly amazed. Good work.

[ukcroupier]

That's the most impressive video I've ever seen on youtube.

[dprssv]

Videos like these need to be in Trends #1

[snegelstenen]

Wonder how flat earthers explain this? Paid actor? Reasons? Perspective? Oh, of course. We're on a fresbee, and everyone knows a fresbee is a spinning disc. Awesome job by the way 👍

[sabrinakelley-brooks]

I used to go to University of Puget Sound, and the most relatable part of this video is how you slept on the benches next to the pendulum. I've done that too many times to count.

[KhAnubis]

This was amazing (as usual). At first, I thought it was going to be just the timelapse, but man was I wrong!

[timothysstuffintros]

Your channel is sooo good! How do u only get 10k views

[CattoRayTube]

Your stop motion solution worked so well!

Great video and explanation :)

[solunetic]

I respect you dude. No one would waste this much time for us. Thanks, your a good soul.

[theobits-obworld]

Congrats on vid - a lot of work put in that some other YouTubes just don’t.🏆

[EvanBoyar]

I went ahead and did the math with too many significant figures:
Pendulum day = sideral day/sin(latitude)
Pendulum day = 23.9344699/sin(47.263655°)
Pendulum day= 32 hours 35 minutes 12.37 seconds

[Corporis]

That Brilliant logo reveal in the beginning was...brilliant

[Taikamuna]

Imagine doing this and then someone comes and touches the pendulum