DERIVO: Pendulum

Pendulum A pendulum never rests at balance. It passes through it. What appears as equilibrium is only a fleeting moment within motion — a point between opposing forces, continuously crossed but never occupied. Stability, in this sense, is not a condition, but a trajectory. To oscillate is to negotiate: between gravity and momentum, control and release, symmetry and deviation. Each swing carries the memory of the previous one, while anticipating its return. The system persists not by remaining still, but by moving through imbalance. Balance, then, is not the absence of disturbance, but its ongoing resolution. In the motion of the pendulum, time becomes perceptible, and equilibrium reveals itself as something that can only exist in passing.