From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bronte Baxter Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Gyroscope question ( Re: Kilogram losing mass)
Thanks, friend, for introducing the subject of gyroscopes. You seem to know a bit about this. Can you tell me if an object like the earth (say it operates like a gyroscope) could ever reverse direction (reverse rotational direction)? I had one a gyroscope as a kid, and it simply wound down in motion. It never reversed. Objects that hang from strings and rotate reverse their direction. But if the earth is not connected to another object by a string-like something (which no one is presuming it is), then is there anything that could potentially cause it to reverse? - Bronte There is huge kinetic energy in the Earth’s rotation. I doubt that it has ever reversed in its history and that there is anything in the known universe which could cause it to reverse. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.21/1012 - Release Date: 9/16/2007 6:32 PM
