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What is spacetime?
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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16605490" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>Yes and no. Yes, because it approximates the same effect. No, because the coin trick is a product of angular momentum being conserved, more commonly, but erroneously, known as "centrifugal force." The Earth, in fact, none of the planets, anywhere, feel any sort of centrifugal force effect. The Earth "thinks" it and the sun are just going along, forever, in a straight line. But the nifty trick is that this straight line is a product of the distortion of space by the mass of the sun and the Earth, and it turns out that this straight line is, in fact, a circle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16605490, member: 67454"] Yes and no. Yes, because it approximates the same effect. No, because the coin trick is a product of angular momentum being conserved, more commonly, but erroneously, known as "centrifugal force." The Earth, in fact, none of the planets, anywhere, feel any sort of centrifugal force effect. The Earth "thinks" it and the sun are just going along, forever, in a straight line. But the nifty trick is that this straight line is a product of the distortion of space by the mass of the sun and the Earth, and it turns out that this straight line is, in fact, a circle. [/QUOTE]
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