here's one for the science guys and the SciFi geeks as well..
we've all seen one show / film or another at some point where they use a spinning section of a space station or craft to create "artificial gravity" for the occupants.
we all know that this is just certifugal force and not real gravity.
now if I were standing on the inner surface of a space station and jumped hard enough in the opposite direction to the rotation, would I then be able to float a few inches above the spining surface? ( barring anything fixed to the surface colliding with me of course... )
the surface would be rushing past me obviously but I would be weightless yes?
we've all seen one show / film or another at some point where they use a spinning section of a space station or craft to create "artificial gravity" for the occupants.
we all know that this is just certifugal force and not real gravity.
now if I were standing on the inner surface of a space station and jumped hard enough in the opposite direction to the rotation, would I then be able to float a few inches above the spining surface? ( barring anything fixed to the surface colliding with me of course... )
the surface would be rushing past me obviously but I would be weightless yes?