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electromagnetism. Although more subtle explanations, still using conventional physical theory, have been proffered there does not appear to be general agreement as to the cause of the anomalies. Saxl and Allen's claim that general relativity must be modified, and earlier claims of a similar nature by
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under various conditions. In one series of experiments, the period of a torsion pendulum situated inside a
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in 1970 and hypothesized that “gravitational theory needs to be modified”. In addition, they observed unexplained diurnal variation in the period of the pendulum. None of the effects observed by Saxl and Allen have obvious explanations in terms of well-established theories of gravity and
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in the behaviour of a paraconical pendulum, have not won acceptance by the physics community, and recent attempts to reproduce the phenomena have not been successful.
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pendulum was seen to increase during an eclipse. Saxl is reported to have attempted, without success, to get this work published in the
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Saxl is most well known for a series of controversial experiments in which he measured unexpected changes in the period of a
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Duif, Chris; Water, Kees (1996), "Comments on "Illegitimate science? A personal story"",
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