Trails of Thought from the AGN Think Tank: What is truly up?
Hey kids, I've been posting around the AGN forums a bit and I thought I'd share my views in a new Bloggish segment called "Trails of Thought from the AGN Think Tank" as you no doubt assumed from the title of this post... well if you didn't then... there you go.
First up we have the topic "What is truly up?"
It started with some stupid pre-pubescents pondering the defenition of "up". Is North up, or is up away from the Earth etc etc. Here's my two cents...
And that ends the first instalment of TOTFTAGNTT (wow, what a crappy acronym), I hope you enjoyed it thoroughly Mandi (you're probably the only person that reads it)... might do another profile question post...
First up we have the topic "What is truly up?"
It started with some stupid pre-pubescents pondering the defenition of "up". Is North up, or is up away from the Earth etc etc. Here's my two cents...
Say you were exactly between two large masses, and these were the only source of gravity. You'd be suspended between then because the gravitational forces would cancel each other out... where would "up" be? In this instance "up" doesnt exist, both directions are down, and you'd be "falling" towards two separate grounds (or from an outside frame of reference, there'd be two planetoids rushing toward you to squish you like a bug). If you were in that situation I doubt you'd be pondering the direction of "up", you'd be like "Oh my god there's two giant masses accelerating toward me!" and I dunno... maybe try and swim out of the way...
And that ends the first instalment of TOTFTAGNTT (wow, what a crappy acronym), I hope you enjoyed it thoroughly Mandi (you're probably the only person that reads it)... might do another profile question post...
