[time-nuts] Re: in-ground clock room

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Gilles Clement writes:

> Magnetic levitation, dampening external vibrations ?

By theselves magnetic fields are just really good springs.

To get any kind of dampening you either need to add a
dash-pot (=shock-absorber) as a dissipative device or
you need to modulate the magnitic field to emulate
the same result.

I'm told the latter is much harder than it sounds.

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