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    Use of centrifugal force in outer-space

    I guess my main question is: what if YOU are not rotating along with the rest of the craft? Let's say you were just moments ago pushed off of center axis, and therefore have not picked up the rotation of the cylinder around you - or you are somehow magically inserted into the spinning cylinder...
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    Use of centrifugal force in outer-space

    So, are you confirming my suspicion that the centrifugal force would NOT necessarily be acting on you in the hollow parts of the giant spinning cylinder, or not? A large portion of the physical "realities" as they are described in the book depend on this "gravity" becoming increasingly...
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    Use of centrifugal force in outer-space

    Reading the Arthur C. Clarke novel: "Rendezvous with Rama"; something keeps nagging me about the descriptions of their experience inside the ship they encounter, which is a huge, rotating, hollow cylinder. It's rotation makes a sort of "pseudo-gravity" by way of centrifugal force. The issue I'm...
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