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Old 3rd July 2001 | 00:42
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Oktas8
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I'm with John Tullamarine - more power to you I say!

Other contributors: if you wish to bring in relativistic effects of motion and talk about the moon's gravity, you should also should take into account the effect of gravity of the sun and various nearby stars, the coriolis effect of the earth's rotation, the gravitational force of the atmosphere above you... etc etc etc.

Keep It Simple eh?

Getting back to the original question, I once read a treatise that suggested you could avoid Newton's laws of motion by rotating objects really fast. Unfortunately I don't remember the source.

In any case, it was rubbish from a conventional physics point of view.

[This message has been edited by Oktas8 (edited 02 July 2001).]