--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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... > The short answer is - probably "No". But the Earth is a gyroscope, and a homopolar generator, and is held on a sort of string - the attraction of the Earth to the Sun, which keeps it in orbit. Uns.
