Metronome magic, brought to you by Science™! For a good explanation of why what happens happens, check out :
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/10/01/you-are-getting-sleeeeeeepy/
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Metronome magic, brought to you by Science™! For a good explanation of why what happens happens, check out :
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/10/01/you-are-getting-sleeeeeeepy/
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Cool! The platform the metronomes are on is basically performing an averaging of all of the metronome phases, and by moving the platform imparts part of that average back on all of the metronome phases (we called that the Kammen Comparator Model for phase locking). I used to do the same thing, but with analog neuron-like oscillators on a CMOS chip: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.40.9419