Hours of sleepless nights with a tautochrone curve or isochrone wallpapered bedroom,insomniacal determination in order to fall asleep via the results of the tautochrone problem, via wallpaper.-- skinflaps, Jul 29 2011 Wikipedia: Tautochrone curve http://en.wikipedia...i/Tautochrone_curveNo matter where you start, you always reach the bottom at the same time. [jutta, Jul 29 2011] Details?
I was hoping for a bed and a tautochrone and frictionless floor myself, sliding you to the bottom in 8 hours, no matter where you start. Maybe your bedpost strikes a bell upon arrival?-- jutta, Jul 29 2011 A Newton's cradle tautochrone bell?-- skinflaps, Jul 29 2011 I think the frictionless floor might prove difficult to implement, [jutta].-- pocmloc, Jul 29 2011 Depends on the descent angle; many Newtonian fluids exhibit extremely low limiting resistances, certainly not enough to significantly affect the isochronous trajectory.
We will award a bun for an innovative idea.-- 8th of 7, Jul 29 2011 I read the Wiki link, and I still do not understand. Please educate this member of the Great Unwashed.-- Alterother, Jul 29 2011 Yes but for an 8 hour descent, fitted into a bedroom-sized space?-- pocmloc, Jul 29 2011 [bigsleep] It's equation wallpaper.-- skinflaps, Jul 29 2011 Yes, Jim, but not as we know it ....-- 8th of 7, Jul 29 2011 [bigsleep], I get that part, but I, too, fail to see the function of applying it to my bedroom walls.-- Alterother, Jul 29 2011 I'd never heard of the tautochrone curve before. I'm glad I saw this early enough in the day to get it figured out before bedtime, 'cause it *would* have kept me awake.-- lurch, Jul 29 2011 Instead of which, you'll now just have bizarre and disturbing dreams.
Seems like a fair trade.-- 8th of 7, Jul 29 2011 //Newton's cradle tautochrone bell// You gonna half-bake that, [skinflaps]?-- lurch, Jul 29 2011 "Ding dong" Leslie phillips, no less.-- skinflaps, Jul 29 2011 // Equation wallpaper //
ie. my kid's bedroom idea. No, seriously.-- RayfordSteele, Jul 31 2011 random, halfbakery