[matsuka]

Despite all of the strange myths surrounding eclipses, you could probably forgiven for thinking that at least you could stay standing up without difficulty. Except, there is a well documented and completely unexplainable phenomenon that gravity simply doesn’t work properly during total eclipses, but only for pendula. It’s called the Allais Effect, after Marcus Allais, the Nobel Prize winning economist, who first observed this effect in the 1950s.

Since then, scientists have reported everything from pendula starting to swing faster, to changing amplitude and being knocked as if hit by a shockwave. Many have also failed to notice any effect at all. Nevertheless, the only explanation offered so far is that there must be gravitational waves blocked by the moon, which does not conform to any theory of gravity yet discovered.

http://mentalfloss.com/uk/astronomy/2780...ar-eclipse