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Can an observer in a double tidal locked system figure out it is orbiting?
Tidal locking, when the spin rate of a body matches the orbital rate so that it always faces the other body with the same side, usually occurs for just one of the bodies in orbit. However, there are ...
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Falling into the sun, a thought experiment for trying to understand reference frames
If someone were transported out into empty space, idk like hundred of thousands of miles straight "up," would they fall into the sun?
It would depend on their velocity right? If they were moving at an ...
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