I have yet to get to the Foucault pendulum thing, and as to how a rotating E is meant to have an effect. Mean time I did once suggest a mechanism using a gyro. Here is what I wrote some few years ago in my DIARY OF A MAD PROFESSOR. at a time when geocentrism was not at issue with me. "What if we set a gyroscope (flywheel) with a very high moment of enertia (heavy) rotating at tangental/horizontal to the plain of the earth's rotation and geared it (the gyro flywheel container on a shaft) to a chain of drives? As the earth rotates the axis of the wheel will remain fixed in space but will appear to rotate relative to the earth observer and to the gear chain at one revolution per day. This rate at very high torque could be geared up to a useful rotating speed to do work. This is the precession momentum of rotation. Not practical but true. Work out the gear ratio." So when I saw this article purporting to prove we are stationary, and not being sufficiently educated to follow it I ask the boffins to look at it. I left out the cosmic background part as that seems to be only assumptive anyway. Quote: The Motionless Earth at the Centre of the Universe Yves Nourissat* The commentary on the Apostles' Creed in the Catechism of the Council of Trent (p.29 English translation, McHugh and Callon) states that God commanded the Earth to stand in the midst of the world (Universe), rooted in its own foundation. This truth of faith in which the Fathers believed would now seem to be confirmed by contemporary scientific observations. The movement of the Foucault pendulum during solar eclipses is one of the observations, and another is the minus 2.7° Kelvin cosmic background radiation. Nobel prize winner Maurice Allais noticed that during the eclipse of 30th June 1954 the rotation of the oscillation plane of his paraconic pendulum changed when the moon passed in front of the sun. Similarly, during the eclipse of 15 Feb 1961, Jeverdan, Rusu and Antonesco observed that a Foucault pendulum not only changed the rotation of its oscillation plane, but instead of becoming lighter became heavier during the phenomenon. These observations indicate the immobility of the earth, because if the Foucault effect was due to the rotation of the earth upon itself, it is difficult to understand why the effect would be interrupted when the moon eclipses the sun. Moreover, the increased heaviness of the pendulum suggests that gravitation is not a phenomenon of attraction of masses between themselves, as was taught by Newton. end Quote. Two questions occur to me. Does everything get heavier at this eclipse? Or only the gyrating pendulum...HmmmmMaybe the hughjumpers should go for the record during an eclipse....lol Philip.