[geocentrism] Re: apology fruitless debate.
- From: Alan Griffin <ajg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:54:07 +0100
On 08 Aug, Philip <joyphil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I read somewhere that a flywheel of nominal mass will fall in a vacuum
> due to gravity at a slower acceleration than the same mass falls if it
> were not rotating. Like gravity is reduced? The leaning top does not
> fall over while it is spinning, does it.
No. The mass has increased owing to the increased energy.
> I went into a university site once to seek an explanation of the gyro
> effect seen in the precession of a simple toy the spinning top. Do you
> know, there was two or more pages of mathmatical formulas and equations.
> I reckoned they didn't know.
You are being cynical again. It's quite complicated involving the
conservation of angular momentum, so you probably wouldn't understand it.
Alan Griffin
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