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>>14687253
>some pendulum experiments

Here's another one. IIRC, I completely disassemlbed the pendulum and set everything up again between this one and the previous one so as to avoid systematics. The result was identical, and I got the same result several more times. After I got CCW precession in about six consecutive experiments, the CIA moved me or replaced my weight with a gyroscope because then I started getting nothing but CW precession. In either case, the lack of back of forth in one regime or the other, meaning all counterclockwise and then all clockwise, suggests that experimental errors were not contributing to the result. If errors were involved, I would have gotten mixed results between CCW and CW.

>>14637856

>>12384789
Here's a repeat experiment. I replaced the nylon cord with a thin, rigid steel wire to eliminate the possibility of torsion coming from the tether's fibers. I also centered the connection of the tether on the center of mass of the weight. Also attached the top of the tether to a different support. Since the experiment turned out exactly the same, I conclude that torsion in the tether did not contribute to the result, neither did the position of the tether's attachment to the weight, nor was it an artifact of the way I had secured the top of the tether.