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DARKSYDE
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im struggeling with the notion of experiencing angular momentum in a spinning space station. to me it would seem that you wouldn't "stick" to the wall/floor simply because it was spining.
for example, if you were floating in a vaccume in the center center of a tube like structure and it it began to spin around you, would you gravitate to the outter wall? from what i read its a yes. it seems to me if you were to spin with it because you were latched to a wall then you would experience the force but only until it reached its maximum velocity at which point you would return to being weightless again but now spinning with the direction of the tube.
for example, if you were floating in a vaccume in the center center of a tube like structure and it it began to spin around you, would you gravitate to the outter wall? from what i read its a yes. it seems to me if you were to spin with it because you were latched to a wall then you would experience the force but only until it reached its maximum velocity at which point you would return to being weightless again but now spinning with the direction of the tube.