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I'm wondering if there are any papers that consider the effect of a rapidly moving mass on a spinning gyroscope.
The basic idea is you have some gyroscope, pointing at a distant "guide star", a "whoosh" as a massive relativistic object moves by, and then you look to see if your gyroscope is still pointing at said guide star.
I intuitively expect the gyroscope to be deflected through some angle, at least for some orientations of the gyroscopes, as measured by the distant guide star. But I don't have any detailed calculation of this, and it's tricky enough that I'd like to see a paper addressing it.
I imagine one could also consider the massive object to be stationary, and start fermi-walker transporting the spin axis along the orbit...but I'd still rather read about it than try to attempt it from scratch...
The basic idea is you have some gyroscope, pointing at a distant "guide star", a "whoosh" as a massive relativistic object moves by, and then you look to see if your gyroscope is still pointing at said guide star.
I intuitively expect the gyroscope to be deflected through some angle, at least for some orientations of the gyroscopes, as measured by the distant guide star. But I don't have any detailed calculation of this, and it's tricky enough that I'd like to see a paper addressing it.
I imagine one could also consider the massive object to be stationary, and start fermi-walker transporting the spin axis along the orbit...but I'd still rather read about it than try to attempt it from scratch...