Daniel's beacon

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Daniel’s beacon

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First Introduced

"The Economist"

Owned by

Daniel

Found by

himself

Used by

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Daniel’s beacon is a device used by Daniel Faraday to conduct an experiment in "The Economist".

The experiment

Daniel and his tripod

Daniel's toolkit

Daniel's clock

In Daniel's timing experiment, the beacon was mounted on a tripod with a clock on it. He then phoned the freighter, getting Regina. He asked her to send a payload in a small rocket to the beacon. Regina did so and began counting down the geographic arrival of the payload in rapid 5-kilometer-steps, starting with 40km. But when she reached zero, the rocket had not reached the beacon. Regina said that it was "weird" while Daniel responded that it was "far more than weird". The rocket did eventually arrive a while later. He compared the time on a digital clock from the rocket with the one from the tripod and saw that they were different by 31 minutes. Daniel commented that the result was "not good".