Bogdanov affair
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The Bogdanov affair was a controversy in the early 2000s over the legitimacy of the PhD degrees in theoretical physics obtained at the University of Burgundy by French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov
Igor Bogdanov (left) and Grichka Bogdanov (right) in 2016
A Foucault pendulum, "an icon of French science", illustrated in the magazine Le Petit Parisien (1902).
Foucault pendulum
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The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. If a long and heavy pendulum
Bogdanov affair
…were particularly unconvinced by a statement in the "Topological origin of inertia" paper that "whatever the orientation, the plane of oscillation of Foucault's pendulum is necessarily aligned with the initial singularity marking the origin of physical space." In addition, the paper claimed, the Foucault pendulum…
Foucault's pendulum in the Panthéon, Paris
A print of the Foucault Pendulum, 1895