Re: [Phys-l] Centrifugal redux

[chuck britton <britton@ncssm.edu>]

On Mar 18, 2009, at Mar 18(Wed) 1:54 , Bob Sciamanda wrote:
> One interpretation might identify the agent as the distant stars.
> When viewed, for example, from a rotating earth, the stars  
> constitute a
> rotating mass generating  gravi-magnetic fields - resulting in
> centrifugal/coriolis forces for the earth observers.

yes, of course.	It all makes so much sense.

When an astro/cosmology type person put forth this explanation to me  
- I  was MOST perplexed as to how EASY it was for me to swing the  
entire universe around at pretty much whatever speed I chose.

SURELY there must be some VERY strange versions of dynamics and  
energy conservation in this viewpoint.