Linear momentum and angular momentum are orthagonal to each other within a closed system. Each is conserved separately and one can not convert into the other. I have seen where linear momentum can be induced to generate two or more angular momentum components, but the vector sum of the system angular momentum remains zero.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Vibrator ! <mrvibrat...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Thu, Dec 29, 2016 12:46 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:EM Drive need not be outside the spacecraft 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?
