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Learning to acquire a tolerance for that is actually very possible.
You can watch the results here, starting at around 10 minutes and 30 seconds. Despite the oscillations in the tether and other spacecraft issues, these did settle down temporarily after 20 minutes or so, and for a brief time a teeny, tiny bit of artificial gravity was observed in the Gemini capsule. How much gravity? About 0.0005 g with 0.15 revolutions per minute. Some time later the tether was released.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: greenreflections
Your angular momentum will quite effectively "attach" you to the hull. In the same manner that gravity "attaches" you to the surface of the Earth.
The answer comes from Einstein's theory of General Relativity. According to General Relativity all the Earth does is cause a curvature of 4-dimensional space-time and also according to General Relativity, a free object will always travel along a geodesics in this curved 4-dimensional space-time. Now a geodesic is a fancy way of saying a straight line - in particular a geodesic in a curved space-time is the path that has a minimum distance between it's end points - just like a straight line on a flat sheet of paper is the shortest distance between it's two end points and the shortest possible path on a sphere between two points is a great circle arc. Newtonian physics says that an object with no forces acting on it will travel in a straight line at a constant speed, and it is also true in General Relativity that an object with no forces acting on it will travel on a geodesic which is the straightest possible line in 4-dimensional curved space-time.
So the reason why it feels like there is a force holding you to the chair you are sitting on right now is because the chair is forcing you to NOT follow the geodesic path you would otherwise have followed in the curved space-time caused by the earth.
it would feel awkward having to hold the handle all the time, because as soon as you let it go, you are going to hurt yourself bouncing off that wall.
How does an anchor make your ship go faster? But, since you don't understand angular momentum, I guess you can't be expected to understand orbital mechanics.
Which is what we have been talking about. But are you saying that angular momentum plays no role in orbital mechanics?
Angular momentum is irrelevant example in your case and applicable to rotation of solid object.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: greenreflections
Angular momentum is irrelevant example in your case and applicable to rotation of solid object.
Which is what we have been talking about. But are you saying that angular momentum plays no role in orbital mechanics?
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I have no idea what you mean by that. In a given frame of reference acceleration due to gravity is indistinguishable from any other form of acceleration.
You mixing up generating 'g' on the scale of orbit with local centripetal effect.
They revolve around the Sun, not rotate. But I have no idea how you derive that from what I've said about angular momentum.
According to your momentum argument, all planets in solar system should rotate around the sun at the same angular velocity.
I have no idea how you derive that from what I've said about angular momentum.