There is a large electrical line, outside my apt windows, topped with two inches of ice and snow, that has been bobbing up and down since at least five am. It bounces in a perfect rhythm at a moderate tempo, unceasingly.
It is mesmerizing in it’s metronomic regularity.
Seems like it should lose it’s inertial force, delivered by some resting bird, or falling snow and ice blob, but no. It just goes on perpetually. So much so that I wonder if the harmonics of the vibration are altering the line quality? Snow-induced attenuation?
It’s not unimaginable that the increased power demand, coupled with a rare physical rigidity in the line, and astronomically improbable physical conditions are allowing the pulsations of current to sustain this motion. As if the cable vibration is the expression of a hot electrical line shivering in the cold air.
It’s the only variable I can think of in this system that is likely to be operating with this level of regularity. A regularity that is so perfect that it hints at artificiality.
I can’t leave out the idea that there could be a machine at one or both ends of the line, that are powered to shake the line.
Anybody else know what’s going on here?