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Eventually we will have to compensate for gallactic rotation.
by Euphorbium 2y ago
Eventually we will have to compensate for gallactic rotation.
- viraptor 2y agoI never thought of that one. It's fun to think "we know the whole universe isn't spinning very fast, because our gyros are stable". Feels both obvious and somehow bigger-than-life to me.
- zamalek 2y agoWe are not kinetically bound to the galactic center, there is no friction causing earth to remain "upright" in respect to the galaxy. Earth is also a freely rotating inertial body and, even though wobbly, it is itself a gyroscope. The next level of stabilization would probably be gravitational waves.
- jerich 2y agoAnyone who’s read the short story “The Billiard Ball” by Asimov would have taken it into account.