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the universe's favorite indecision, refusing to commit to either extreme forever.
means A repeated back-and-forth movement between two points or states, like a pendulum swinging or a value rising and falling around a center.
from From Latin 'oscillare,' to swing, which traces back to 'oscillum' — a little face or mask of Bacchus that Roman farmers hung from trees in vineyards, letting it sway in the breeze as a charm for fertile soil. So the word for swinging began, charmingly, as a tiny swinging god.
- bridge killer
- Tacoma Narrows shook itself apart in 1940
- clock heart
- Quartz watches keep time by oscillating crystals
- soldier ban
- Troops break step crossing bridges to avoid resonance
- atomic second
- Defined by 9,192,631,770 cesium oscillations
- deadly sync
- Resonant frequency can amplify tiny pushes catastrophically
for instance
pendulum of foucault — swings in the panthéon, paris, demonstrating earth's rotation since 1851
tacoma narrows bridge — collapsed from wind-induced oscillation in 1940, washington state