quasigeostrophy | Radical New Theory

explodingcat may find this one especially interesting.

Last night, Toni and I caught a pretty good documentary on History Channel International about Stonehenge. It was full of the usual discussions about how and why it was built. During one part of the program, they discussed the construction in three phases, and while I was looking at the animated diagram, the light bulb came on.

The outer ring of Stonehenge was originally a complete circle of giant stones that, from a certain distance, resemble (to me, anyway) pegs. Pegs that, when knocked down in a certain way, might be used in an attempt to tell time such as those used by the Indiana State Museum's Foucault Pendulum.

See, I think the builders of Stonehenge planned one more construction phase - they needed a gigantic tripodal structure to rise above the rest of the construction and were going to try to produce Foucault's experiment hundreds of years before he got around to it. Why did the rest of this construction never happen? Clearly there must be a conspiracy.