"Since the tripod is the most stable base (ask any photographer or physicist)"
Hmmm...you may be a photographer, but you're definitely not a physicist.
And as for "All the best turntables..........now have 3 legs instead of 4"...., well, that remark shows such a lack of knowledge as to be laughable. And I also note that you've changed your experimental paradigm from "taking three tripods, setting up one under each foot?" to "three to four tripods"-I assume that's because you realized that a 3-point base under a square or rectangular plinth is inherently *unstable*-just press lightly down on any corner that no longer has the benefit of a stable foot
It does make me think, though-imagine you had tripods for footers, and then you put *another* tripod under each leg of those tripods, and then *another* tripod under each leg of those tripods, and then......
Hmmm...you may be a photographer, but you're definitely not a physicist.
And as for "All the best turntables..........now have 3 legs instead of 4"...., well, that remark shows such a lack of knowledge as to be laughable. And I also note that you've changed your experimental paradigm from "taking three tripods, setting up one under each foot?" to "three to four tripods"-I assume that's because you realized that a 3-point base under a square or rectangular plinth is inherently *unstable*-just press lightly down on any corner that no longer has the benefit of a stable foot
It does make me think, though-imagine you had tripods for footers, and then you put *another* tripod under each leg of those tripods, and then *another* tripod under each leg of those tripods, and then......