Of course, but that only explains how the pendulum keeps swinging. It does nothing to explain why the pendulum rotates.
They don't universally, investigate for yourself. Not saying they don't, just saying they appear to need help getting the predicted result.
There are many puzzling thing that are universally accepted that I don't whole heartedly accept any more.
Cavendish established the universal continent for Gravity over 200 years ago and no one has ever repeated that experiment although we surely have better technology than existed then. We have calculated repeatedly almost every other physical constant, but not that one. In fact the speed of light seems to be slowing down or we are just getting it wrong. Just thing that make me go Hmmnn.
I can remember well the first pictures of the moon landing and have had a hard time believing that those flimsy space suits could protect the astronauts and yet have wrinkles on them. Just the heating and cooling alone would seem to require more energy than they could carry.