Weird question:
If I say the word "pendulum," what, if anything, do you imagine it swinging from?
If I say the word "pendulum," what, if anything, do you imagine it swinging from?
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Go birds.
My parent's grandfather clock.
But I don't actually visually anything until specifically asked,so I might be an outlier.
I don't remember which one, specifically, but the image of the pendulum is extremely vivid, and they had one of those distant whisper things, set up in the early 90's.
Swinging from the nothingness
It’s not that it’s suspended in the air in my mind’s eye - it’s just that whatever it’s swinging from isn’t in my mind’s eye’s field of vision.
Either Foucault's pendulum or like in the Pit and the Pendulum pendulum
Wait, sorry, wrong philosophical cul-de-sac.
Foucault pendulum at Fermilab
But also speaking as a short grownup, in my imagination any fulcrum is in the unknown dimension known as “Up”.
The only other things that come to mind are a grandfather clock or a hypnotist's hand.