[opendtv] Re: Mag-lev

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:56:47 -0500

Bob Miller wrote:

> Theoretically the only line where you experience free
> fall is the one thru the center

Agreed.

> and you would experience it until you reached zero speed
> on the other side

Not "free fall" all the way through, because your acceleration is
steadily decreasing throughout the trip, going increasingly negative
(slowing you down more and more) after you go by the core. You should
experience free fall only at the very start opf the journey.

> at which I guess someone grabs you before you make a
> return trip, a perpetual yo-yo.

Agreed.

Bert
 
 
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