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The Ring of Truth
1973 · Film · 47 min
Directed by Donald McWhinnie
After his father's death, George Pickard has a strange dream where his father tells him he's traveling to the small town of Skelby Moor. His father, Albert, was a traveling salesman who worked a large territory but the name is familiar to him. He takes his holiday there staying at the same hotel his father used.
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Thanks to both of you for the praise.
You might also be interested in "The Secret Life of Machines". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Machines and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpNQQqdSh8&list=PLByTa5duIolYRtq45Cz_GmtzfWJyA4bik .
Philip Morrison (from Ring of Truth) is perhaps best known for his powers-of-10 movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten_(film) .
He was also a columnist for Scientific American. The only column I remember is when he decided to make bread from scratch. Really from scratch. They grew wheat in a small plot of land near his home in Cambridge, Mass.
He's part of the generation that developed the first atomic bomb. He carried the first core to the Trinity test site in the back seat of his car, and helped load the weapons on the planes that went to Japan.
Wow. Thank you for you thoughtful and long replies.
> ...you have to decide at some point where you can trust the results of others.
Exactly. My personal attitude in asking is very much in the "hacker spirit"; mainly I point out appeals to authority as an identification of an opportunity to dig deeper.
> Foucault pendulum
Oh! That's a thing I had forgotten. Back in the day, I remeber using several of these and correlating their positions against rotation rates to estimate the Earth's radius. Not quite a backyard experiment though.
> "The Ring of Truth" miniseries
It seems this is on YouTube. Thanks for the pointer! The oil drop experiment sounds really cool.
> Moon does have an atmosphere... all you can do is set an upper bound for the thickness of the atmosphere.
Fair enough. You're speaking more precisely than I. I'm also wondering at what point the variance drops beneath the noise from Earth's atmosphere. This is something that's worth taking a top-down approach by initially trusting our Handbook of Physics and Chemistry and slowly working our way back.
Anyway, thanks again for your in-depth replies. You must be an amazing conversation partner!