Traveller’s Comments (group member since Sep 15, 2013)

Traveller’s comments from the Foucault's Pendulum group.

:) You're making me blush, Dolors. Glad you like it!

Glad to hear, Paul! Looking forward to November.

Nice to see you, guys! Since many of us are already engaged in group reads at the moment, we had decided to set the date for discussion to around November 23, which is a Saturday.

Will that be too far in the distance for you, Paul?

I haven't got around to sending out a general friends invite yet; maybe I should "create an event", which, as I remember, one can set to send out automatic reminders close to the start of the event.

Thanks, Ulrike, please contribute whatever you feel like to the group as and when it suits you. :)

I've started a thread for now, in which we can post background goodies as we might come across them in our travels: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Since the novel touches on a lot of issues that might require a bit of extra information, I'll start the group off by creating a thread where we can post info or links that might help with this.

One of the first subjects I myself need to read up a bit on, is exactly what a Foucault pendulum is.
According to Wikipedia:

The Foucault pendulum,... named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, is a simple device conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.

While it had long been known that the Earth rotated, the introduction of the Foucault pendulum in 1851 was the first simple proof of the rotation in an easy-to-see experiment. Today, Foucault pendulums are popular displays in science museums and universities.

For more detail, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault...

They have a few nice illustrations there, even if you don't feel like reading through all of the theory.

Well, I sort of give up, I guess, so anyone who find nicer pictures, please feel free to suggest them. I found a few pretty ones which I'll add to out picture gallery.
In any case, the group now exists, so now we have no excuse come November.

I'll start off by admitting that I'm not too sure what a Foucault's pendulum does, so I'll do some research on that before we start reading, but any of you who wants to post background info in the meantime, please feel free. I think I'll create a special thread for that, eh?

Welcome everyone!
I see Ulrike has already found the group, (welcome Ulrike) while I'm still struggling to find a nice masthead... I tell you, it's much harder than you would think, due to the fact that the masthead (the banner at the top) has to be a long, thin oblong shape of certain proportions.

Invites forthcoming as soon as I either find something nice or give up... maybe members can help out finding with a nice, long landscape format picture?