Hypnotic video. Only vaguely related, but this reminds me of a story a couple of years back involving a machine learning system that was able to derive the law

Hypnotic video. Only vaguely related, but this reminds me of a story a couple of years back involving a machine learning system that was able to derive the laws of Newtonian physics from observing the motion of a hinged pendulum. http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/robot_learning_rebuilding_newton http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/robot_learning_rebuil... There's a lot of information buried in the motion of these objects :)