If someone were to spin a top in a vacuum would it spin for ever? Since there is no friction in a vacuum I would think yes, but does gravity affect a vacuum still and that’s how it would lose momentum?
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what’s up w/this hoser.
The gravity WILL stop it, and because of the gravity there WILL be friction. The top spins on a solid surface. The solid top’s botton point is against the solid surface that it spins on and therefore the top experiences friction as the top is pressing against the surface due to the gravity.
Now . . . It you float that top on a magnetic field to suspend it in space with no physical contact to any surfaces, in a vacuum . . . yeah, it should spin indefinitely.
If a yokel listens to Merzbow and doesn’t “get it” but nobody is around to witness the yokel not getting it - did the yokel ever not get it in the first place??
If a yokel listens to Merzbow and doesn’t “get it” but nobody is around to witness the yokel not getting it - did the yokel ever not get it in the first place??
Boy that’s a thinker isn’t it?
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grmpysmrf
what’s up w/this hoser.
Didn’t mean to make your head hurt.
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[reply]what’s up w/this hoser.
Didn’t mean to make your head hurt.
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Maybe he meant loser. Real cute coming from a guy who makes it appear that there was a music video (not counting Sphinctour) for Filth Pig and says that Ministry didn’t become industrial til 1989.
There may or may not be gravity or friction in a vacuum depending upon where it’s created.
that’s kinda what I was getting at but not completely. In my kitchen and even in space I figured gravity would be present but which one would have greater affect. I figured both would not have friction… unless counting the effect of gravity
In deep space with absolutely nothing around then the top should spin forever.
I was under the impression that gravity existed everywhere… even in “zero gravity” it is still present. in deep space there is still gravity won’t that pull on the top?
The conservation of angular momentum tells you everything you need to know.
I don’t know what that means I suppose i could look it up.
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Thank you prologue.
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