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Do frame dragging affects falling object?
Imagine there is a tall tower erected at the equator, a pulse of light is beamed from the top of the tower to the ground. Do I need to consider frame dragging? After all the spacetime is being tucked ...
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Has frame dragging been accounted for in galactic rotation curves?
This article explicitly takes frame dragging into account in calculating expected galactic rotation curves in the absence of dark matter, and appears to obtain very close matches to observed curves. ...
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Does frame-dragging affect planets?
The question has come up many times as to why the planets in our solar system lie in essentially the same plane. The most common answer is that they started out that way due to the accretion disk ...
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Does Earth-spin affect the retrograde orbital motion of artificial satellites?
If frame-dragging is true then how the retrograde satellites orbit in the opposite direction to the earth spin direction?
