plants

["Rauber, Joel Phys" <RAUBERJ@mg.sdstate.edu>]

> Huh?  I don't see that your results contradict what Marlow said at all.  I
> take his answer to mean that the plants will grow "up" away from the
> centrepetal force causing their circular motion!  Isn't this what you
> saw?

Marlow said,

> I would imagine the plants are doing pretty much the same thing they do
> at the Earth's surface  --  growing stems and leaves in the direction in
> which the electrochemical surface forces are exerted on them, and sending
> out roots in the opposite direction.

 This means the plants grow towards the light sources, vertically in the 
experiment we arranged. But they grew at an angle.

Joel Rauber
rauberj@mg.sdstate.edu