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Offline Klaustrophobia

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i don't know what frame dragging is.   :nervous:
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Offline Shivan Hunter

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On a related note, I just found out that frame dragging is not, in fact, what happens when you don't have vsync on.

well then you wouldn't be moving, and there's still no force :P

You wouldn't be moving inside the rotating reference frame, but you would feel the effects of inertia (centrifugal force to something inside the rotating frame).

Inertia and centrifugal force (synonyms in this context): the outward force an object in a rotating frame of reference experiences. Action-reaction pair to the centripetal force.

Centripetal force: The inward force on an object in a rotating reference frame, which is the reason it is rotating in the first place.

The distinction between inertia and centrifugal force seems like a pointless semantics battle to me.

Actually it'd be an accelerating reference frame and would thus perceive a gravitational field permeating the entire universe, or so I believe. It's not an IRF.

That's true, but... honestly if you're in a reference frame that's rotating at those speeds you have bigger problems :P

An IRF experiences no fictitious forces. Centrifugal force is a fictitious force. QED. There is, in fact, also frame dragging to consider but I've had enough Wikipedia for the moment. Back to teh code... >.>

  

Offline watsisname

i don't know what frame dragging is.   :nervous:

Okay, y'know how spacetime is "curved" in the presence of a massive object?  Rotating objects do something similar to spacetime -- they drag it around like a whirlpool.

Black holes are the classic example of this -- there is a region of space around a rotating black hole's event horizon where it is impossible to maintain your radial position because space is being whirled around faster than light.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging
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Offline S-99

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To be fair, you probably have to sign one of those to even go on Wheel. Of. FORTUUUUUNEEE!!!!
For signing one of those things for wheel of fortune, it's probably more based on the money winnings you get from the show than anything else. Maybe a little bit for those who get vertigo and motion sickness.
Every pilot's goal is to rise up in the ranks and go beyond their purpose to a place of command on a very big ship. Like the colossus; to baseball bat everyone.

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