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  2. Baily's beads - Wikipedia

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    While Baily's beads are seen briefly for a few seconds at the center of the eclipse path, their duration is maximized near the edges of the path of the umbra, lasting around 90 seconds. It is not safe to view Baily's beads or the diamond ring effect without proper eye protection because in both cases the photosphere is still visible. [5]

  3. Chain fountain - Wikipedia

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    The chain fountain phenomenon, also known as the self-siphoning beads, Mould effect, or Newton beads is a physical phenomenon observed with a chain placed inside a jar. One end of the chain is pulled from the jar and is allowed to fall under the influence of gravity .

  4. Francis Baily - Wikipedia

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    Francis Baily (28 April 1774 – 30 August 1844) was an English astronomer.He is most famous for his observations of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse of the Sun. Baily was also a major figure in the early history of the Royal Astronomical Society, as one of the founders and as the president four times.

  5. Talk:Baily's beads - Wikipedia

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  6. Experimental testing of time dilation - Wikipedia

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    Bailey et al. (1977) measured the lifetime of positive and negative muons sent around a loop in the CERN Muon storage ring. This experiment confirmed both time dilation and the twin paradox, i.e. the hypothesis that clocks sent away and coming back to their initial position are slowed with respect to a resting clock.

  7. Newton's cradle - Wikipedia

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    Newton's cradle simulation with two balls of equal mass; assuming perfect elasticity which implies no energy loss in collisions. The left ball is pulled away which lifts it, and then let go. The left ball swings back as it falls and strikes the right ball, transferring all its momentum to the right ball because they are the same mass.

  8. List of Party of Five episodes - Wikipedia

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    Bailey gets angry at her because she is moving away, but she decides to go to Berkeley instead. They kiss, but Sarah tells Bailey that she just wants to be friends with him. Meanwhile, Charlie and Grace break up because she reveals that she does not like children.

  9. Getting Married Today (song) - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Bailey originated the gender-swapped role of Jamie who performed the song in Marianne Elliott's 2018 West End revival. Bailey, "whose lightning-fast, show-stopping rendition of the song became a must-see West End event" according to Variety, won him the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2019 ...