19th July 2014
Tonight we are 60kms north of Perth, so there is a lot more going on along our route. We visited the Gravity Discovery Centre during our drive south today, which was very interesting.
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| Gravity bending light simulation |
The facility is a research station for detecting gravity waves, one of 6 in the world. An education facility has been opened next to this with some very interesting experiments to do. One of these is a 'leaning tower' which approximates the leaning tower of Pisa from which Galileo conducted gravity experiments. From the modern one the experiment is to drop water filled balloons of different weights to see they drop in a straight line and hit the ground at the same time.
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| Long way down to the sandpit from the top of the gravity tower. |
There is also a cosmos observatory but tonight would not have been good for stargazing as it has been a bit stormy.
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| Beautiful flower in the nearby bush |
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