What's wrong with the centripetal tether example? Are you supposing that there's a fundamentally different interaction manifesting inertia in angular vs linear accelerations? "Angons" vs "linons" or something?
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On 12/29/2016 12:31 PM, Vibrator ! wrote: > >> Offering the implied presence of classical symmetry breaks as evidence of >> their impossibility - ie. "it can't be right because it'd break the laws of >> physics" - is surely redundant; the claim is explicitly a classical >> symmetry break, that's its whole prospective value, and reason for our >> interest. >> >> It is of course trivial that linear momentum can be converted to angular >> momentum, >> > > Do tell. > > Got an example of that? > >
