You may have experienced an unsettling amount of swaying and wobbling if you ve been on a bridge with large numbers of pedestrians traveling over it at the same time. Now, we have a fascinating new explanation for what causes this worrying movement
The theory that bridge swaying is caused by people falling into step with each other, causing a synchronised pendulum effect, has been dismissed by researchers at Georgia State University.
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Researchers have a new explanation for why pedestrian bridges wobble and sway: Too many people are crossing at once and simply trying not to fall over.